Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...road to the New England Championships doesn't lead far away--the event will be held at Soldiers Field--but the path won't be easy; the ruggers must get through the tough fall schedule that Kingston arranged...
...collision of a Pacific Southwest Airlines jet and a small plane over San Diego on Sept. 25, 1978, which killed 144 people. The latest crash was a harrowing reminder that too little has been done in the intervening years to reduce the danger of small planes straying into the path of big passenger carriers at the nation's increasingly crowded airports. The problem is particularly acute in Southern California, which has the heaviest air traffic of any area in the world...
Meanwhile, houses on Florida's eastern coast are beset by another insect immigrant. The Formosan termite, thought to have arrived there aboard a seagoing yacht, forms colonies underground. Its subterranean paths sometimes extend as far as 300 ft. Says Entomologist Nan-Yao Su of the University of Florida's Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center: "In one instance, in Hallandale, Fla., a single colony had driven foraging tunnels underneath four large condominium buildings and infested each one." The insects chew up virtually anything in their path. Last year downtown Honolulu lost power for half a day after Formosan termites severed...
China's new-found intellectual freedom has failed to establish a clear path for the future of the nation's scholarly work, a panel of three Harvard-trained China experts said yesterday...
Story ideas often lead Jaynes down a circuitous path. "I may go into a town to write about a mean billy goat in someone's yard," he says, "and end up writing about an old goat at town hall." Such reflections come naturally to the Alabama-born Jaynes, who remains very much the Southerner. Yet his patchwork-quilt collection of pieces covers every section of the nation. Among the subjects that have piqued his interest are the loon preservationists in New Hampshire, a restaurant in Barrow, Alaska, that is the only place to find Mexican food in the Arctic Circle...