Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hawaii Island, to Honolulu, on Oahu. A subsequent inspection of all 737s ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration turned up tiny stress cracks in nearly half the planes. In December an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 was forced to land in Charleston, W. Va., after a 14-in. hole blew open in the plane's body...
...Wednesday the committee Democrats were in open rebellion against what they saw as an attempted White House whitewash. Nebraska's James Exon declared that the President should start seeking a different nominee. Michigan's Carl Levin asked for more time to look into even newer allegations against Tower. Reading the growing sentiment, Warner suggested that a committee vote be delayed at least until week...
...means that we must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. The chances of your becoming a Jerry Rice or a Magic Johnson are so slim as to be negligible. Black kids must learn to distribute their energies in a way that's going to make them productive, contributing citizens in an increasingly high-technology society...
...torture of black children, analyzed the causes of black- on-black violence, aired footage of the war in Angola and exposed the activities of the White Wolves, a right-wing terrorist group. Critics charge that the show crosses the line between journalism and advocacy. But staffers insist they are open to many views and regularly solicit South African officials for comment. "We strive for journalistic credibility," says O'Connor, "but we have no problem being identified as antiapartheid...
Many Soviet citizens needed no urging to take advantage of their new democratic prerogatives, and some were already champing to go further. Candidate Yeltsin, for one, called for an open discussion of the possibility of introducing a multiparty system before the next Soviet election. Seated in a hall beneath a banner that proclaimed THE ELECTION OF U.S.S.R. PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES IS A SCHOOL FOR DEMOCRACY, nuclear scientist Yasen Shevelev, 63, marveled at the change in political climate. Said he: "It's hard to believe any of this is happening...