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Word: overheads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yells a voice, that of another pilot in our six-plane squadron. Minutes tick by. Then the voice broadcasts welcome news: "We have a rafter!" Racing to join the others, we spot our quarry: 13 Cubans standing up in two makeshift rafts, waving, yelling, laughing, crying as we circle overhead. The Cessna swoops down to a mere 50 ft. above the waves. Domaniewicz shouts over the engines, telling me to open the cabin window and drop a flare; the orange smoke will guide the U.S. Coast Guard to the rafters' position. The scene is a blur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Desperate Straits | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...recommended by activist LeonardFein, who spoke in Emerson Hall last month. It hasa low overhead cost, Lebwohl said...

Author: By Christopher Ortega, | Title: Students Raise Money for Bosnia | 3/4/1994 | See Source »

...where Aidid's henchmen were reported to be meeting. Within minutes, nearly 50 commandos from Delta Force, the premier U.S. counterterrorism unit, and several hundred Army Rangers had captured 24 of Aidid's closest colleagues. While helicopters from Task Force 160, the Army's special-operations air wing, fluttered overhead, the Rangers herded the prisoners into a nearby courtyard and awaited a ground convoy to take them away. Then came the radio report that would change everything: "One of the birds is down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid Disaster, Amazing Valor | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

That letter could be answered with another student's remark, overhead on a Shuttle bus: "I can't believe someone is complaining about people handing out free condoms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Condom Week Designed to Educate | 2/25/1994 | See Source »

...series of exhibits for he University community and the public mounted since 1982, thanks largely to the energy and imagination of Nitza Rosovsky, the curator of exhibits. Her resignation from the Museum staff I regard as tragic. While the exhibits have added to the deficit, owing particularly to the overhead costs of the Museum staff, they are an aspect of the Museum's life which must be continued, but focused more on its core collections...

Author: By Frank MOORE Cross, | Title: A Reply to Martin Peretz | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

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