Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plane could not. Hurtling at 164 m.p.h., the Boeing 727 jet hit the ground on its right wing, snapped open in two places, skidded for 1,000 ft. and finally stopped in a field of knee-high weeds. Flaming jet fuel splattered inside the shattered fuselage, igniting carpets, paneling and seat covers that gave off lethal gases as they burned...
...Texas, though beginning to recover from a severe oil, real estate and banking slump, is still depressed enough in some areas to deny Bush half of the peace-and-prosperity theme he is pushing elsewhere and to open at least some ears to Dukakis' time-for-a-change argument. While the unemployment rate has dropped to 6.8%, it is well above the national average of 5.6%. Texas continues to reel from bank closings -- 93 as of last week -- and failures of savings and loan associations. Says Luan Tatum, Democratic chair in Angelina County: "I watch the TV and hear them...
...past. As three generations of Bidens alight -- his mother, father, sister, wife and two of his three children -- the Senator is swamped by friends and the curious, all straining to get a glimpse of the man who vanished from sight seven months ago. In a blazer and an open-neck shirt that reveals a tiny scar, he looks like the healthiest person here, trim, energetic and tan. He makes his way to a picnic bench, where he waits his turn to speak at what he calls the "most important event in my public life...
...enough from the other dishes for contrast, but not enough of the dried tangerine peel comes through to lift it to the top of the class. It's a good serving and a good dish, but the best of these use a simpler sauce, with more red pepper to open special nasal passages that are then messaged by the citrus aroma...
...professor of law whose tenure case was rejected by Bok this winter, has appealed to the federal judiciary, as has Jackson at the Business School. While their cases are difficult to judge, the discrimination claims themselves underline the fact that Harvard is not welcoming women into its ranks with open arms...