Word: patches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marince had a bad accident when he was 17 years old. He was riding in a car that skidded over a patch of ice and was thrown out the" passenger door and into the path of an oncoming truck. He woke up two days later in Pittsburgh's Allegheny General Hospital, a tube in his throat and a machine pumping air down his trachea. Rob had lost the use of his arms and legs, and his lungs were paralyzed as well. The doctors said that he would spend his life on his back, unable to perform the simplest tasks...
Reagan made the bargaining-chip argument because he is concerned about securing congressional approval for the system. He hopes to patch together an uneasy alliance in support of the program made up of hawks who want the MX for its own sake and doves who want it so the U.S. can give it away. That ploy may well backfire. By implying that the U.S. might be able to live without the MX in certain circumstances after all, Reagan has produced a self-contradiction that weakens the case for the missile as indispensable, a fact congressional skeptics have quickly pointed...
...presents itself as a soft hive of colored blobs, blooming and twinkling in rows, against a dark ground. Lit windows? Strings of restaurant lights? A view from a terrace? Then more specific things appear: a pinkish vertical, another stage flat, turns into a stucco wall; a cobalt patch at the center, where the vanishing point would be if there were any perspective, resolves itself as a glimpse of sea; the S of creamy green paint that lights the whole painting with its contradictory glare, leaping against the more tentative and modulated speckling of the rest of the surface...
Scrape of feathers against the box. The self gathers bravely, before dispersion inland, burial in a cabbage patch...
...have been lofted, the latest in July. Instead of traveling along the equator, as do most communications satellites, Landsat 4 circles the earth once every 99 min. via the polar regions. Thus as the planet turns underneath the satellite, Landsat's ever vigilant electronic eyes see a different patch of earth on every pass...