Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hodel, a former head of the Bonneville Power Administration, took the onslaught with outward calm and an occasional smile. Iacocca was fired, he suggested, chiefly because he got too big for his britches. "The statue is more than Lee Iacocca," he said. Hodel's justification was, at best, a bit thin. He insisted that there was a "potential conflict of interest" between Iacocca's role as chairman of the governmental advisory commission and his leadership of the private Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, the group that has been spectacularly successful in raising some $233 million for the restoration projects...
...outward appearances, he was a successful meat salesman and a quiet, grandfatherly type. Paul Castellano, head of the Gambino crime family and reputed kingpin of organized crime in America, wanted it that way: he was determined to change the image of the Mafia from violent crime syndicate to respectable family business. "We are in a new era," he once told his fellow mob chiefs. "Legitimacy, not muscle, is what we should project...
...effects of solar radiation, meteorite impacts, volcanic activity, atmosphere and other phenomena that have gradually changed the inner members of the solar system. Every once in a while, however, a passing star gives the cloud a gravitational jiggle, releasing hundreds of these fragments. Most of them are sent outward into interstellar space, but some are hurled toward the sun as comets. Although the Oort Cloud has yet to be seen, most astronomers agree it exists and is the flotsam left over when a nebula, a massive cloud of dust and gas, collapsed and formed the solar system...
...crew has a speaker mounted on the bow directed outward at other boats so the cox can do audio-intimidation in a big way," Hatton says...
Disaster began when the celestial intruder crashed into what is now the Bering Sea, possibly creating a crater some 100 miles wide. The stupefying force of the impact, estimated at 100 million megatons, would have generated an enormous 3,000 degrees F fireball that would have spread outward at the speed of sound, igniting forest fires from North America to Asia. Several hundred billion tons of plants and animals would have been incinerated, sending great scarves of black smoke to join the impact dust in the stratosphere and circulate around the globe. What is more, because soot does not rain...