Word: plateaus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latter-day Potemkin village, Moscow last week was being spruced up for next week's summit meeting between Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. But the most noteworthy preparation for the superpower sit-down was in progress about 2,000 miles from the Kremlin on the dusty, sunbaked plateaus of northern Afghanistan. There a convoy of nearly 300 tanks, trucks and armored personnel carriers rumbled across the border into the motherland as the Soviet army began a retreat from its disastrous 8 1/2-year effort to prop up Afghanistan's tottering Communist government. The first phase of the withdrawal, involving...
...birds, with vanilla-white stomachs, dark throats, and bodies that arc down from their wings at takeoff like giant commas. They are also among the rarest: only an estimated 700 to 900 black- necked cranes survive in the wild, most of them living on the 10,000-ft.- high plateaus in the northwestern region of Tibetan China. As humans encroach on their nesting and wintering grounds, the number of birds continues to dwindle, and officials of the People's Republic of China fear that the species may become extinct...
...Carl Yastrzemski retried with more than 3000 hits and 400 home runs, making him the only American League player to reach both plateaus (Willie Mays and Henry Aaron both did it in the NL). Which AL player narrowly missed becoming they first, finishing his career with more than 3000 hits but 399 homers...
...been circling Venus, probing it with a battery of instruments, including radar. The devices, said Pioneer Venus scientists meeting at NASA's Ames Research Center near Mountain View, Calif, have revealed that under Venus' clouds is a landscape almost as dramatic as the earth's: sprawling plateaus, mountains as high as Everest and great chasms similar to terrestrial rift valleys...
Success for Michael R. Schubert '82 is a series of plateaus. For the composer of this year's Hasty Pudding Theatricals' score, every new song, every new orchestration, every new musical is another level of success and carries with it another kind of fame. There is, of course, an ultimate fame in Schubert's mind--"I want to compose good musical theater, probably in New York"--but in the meantime he seems satisfied, passing patiently through stages of accomplishment leading to that...