Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still down by two. The two-point conversion was a must. Cochrane, perhaps smiling as he dropped back to pass, found Brickley open in the flat for the score...
...behind the pack that the camera didn't even follow him. Yet still he kept on going. One could imagine the view from his end: the dispiriting sight of distant bodies receding as he tried to catch them, then the even more desolating sight of nothing but open track. That is why the lonely figure, isolated as a marathon runner, received the loudest cheers of all. It is also why all eyes except the camera's were trained on the lanky 32-year-old man with dark, long legs and yellow shoes. His was not a telegenic image, just...
...banning 70% of heavy-duty trucks during morning and evening rush hours in the hope of unclogging the city's blocked traffic arteries and reducing Los Angeles' notorious smog. The plan would require the cooperation of many of the city's biggest businesses, which would be asked to stay open to receive and load goods for a four-hour period between...
...going to have a lot of fun doing it." Several hours later, astronauts Mike Lounge and David Hilmers, manipulating controls in the cabin, raised and tilted the TDRS package in the cargo bay, and activated springs that pushed it out of the open doors into space. After Hauck and pilot Dick Covey had maneuvered the shuttle to a safe 45 miles away, the TDRS rocket ignited, sending the satellite farther away from earth. Later that night, the TDRS rocket's second stage precisely nudged the satellite into a geosynchronous orbit, where it hovered 22,250 miles above the Pacific Ocean...
...work toward forgiveness of Latin American foreign debt, so that those countries can afford to purchase American commodities. In the vice presidential debate, Dan Quayle insisted that debt forgiveness would be "wrong," "counterproductive" and unfair to American farmers. Quite to the contrary, removing this burden of debt would open up one of the fastest growing food markets in the world to American products. Nothing could please farmers more...