Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blankets and vodka and helped people into lifeboats. When launched, they were soon surrounded by giant ice floes. "While we were sitting in the boats, we thought this was going to be another Titanic," said Harry Delor, 72, of Dusseldorf. "Some panicked, some prayed. We thought the end was near...
Except for a couple of the oldest machines, all the games in the show can be played by visitors (the $5 admission charge -- $2.50 for kids -- gets you a packet of five tokens). Most of the greats and near greats are here: Space Invaders, the 1978 hit that popularized the genre's single most enduring theme, warfare in space; Donkey Kong, whose endearingly quirky scenario had a little man racing up a skyscraper to rescue a girl from the clutches of a giant gorilla; and Tron, the only video game that was more popular than the movie that inspired...
...true market value of the property and obtain other collateral. You must be certain that there's title, fire and flood insurance on the property and that your mortgage is recorded properly. And you should never assume that a property appraised at $300,000 today will yield anything near $300,000 in the event of foreclosure. The appraisal might have been high, selling costs will typically eat up at least 6% or 7% of the proceeds, the property could have deteriorated in the meantime, and the bottom could have fallen out of real estate prices...
...Friday, the Greek tanker World Prodigy struck a rock at Brenton Reef, just south of Newport, R.I., spewing about 600,000 gal. of fuel that immediately began drifting toward Newport Harbor. A few hours later, a tanker collided with an oil-filled barge near Houston, releasing 250,000 gal. of oil. Then, shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday, a tanker from Uruguay ran aground in the Delaware River just south of Claymont, Del., causing a discharge of up to 1.6 million gal. of industrial fuel...
...16th century Europe scorned as a scandalous extravagance, Our Lady of Peace is being maligned as an unseemly expense in a country with an annual per capita income of $650. Demands a devout Ivory Coaster: "Why build a church for God while there are so many unemployed and near starving?" The regime counters that the church was paid for entirely by private funds provided by Houphouet-Boigny and his sister and was built on land owned by the President...