Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time ran out, he could only cheer. And hope...
What had long worked for the Globe's 400 editors and reporters was the style of Thomas Winship, a gregarious charmer who ran the paper like an Irish pol for two decades before stepping down last year. Janeway, by contrast, was introspective, a cerebral, tautly mannered journalist who had worked at the Atlantic for eleven years before joining the Globe in 1978 as editor of its Sunday magazine. Given Winship's long shadow over the newspaper, a sympathetic colleague observed, "I don't think Mike ever had a chance...
...equipped for governing the world, but they are admirable in specific cases of injustice." And he makes such homilies seem the genuine beliefs, born of experience, of his characters. Keneally is equally at home, if less exciting, in lower-middle-class urban Australia and the locker rooms of also-ran athletes. These characters ring true, but they are not especially interesting. That, however, seems to be part of his strategy. The grayness of this humdrum world only makes the clashing colors of the Kabbelskis' lives more compelling. Keneally's real triumph is to portray, through one family's delusions...
...missions since 1979 have ended in costly accidents. This time the European Space Agency's unmanned craft carried a payload of two satellites worth a total of $200 million: G-Star II, owned by the U.S. communications company GTE, and Brasilsat S2, a Brazilian counterpart. The countdown ran smoothly until just 4.9 seconds before ignition, but then a sudden computer foul-up scrubbed the mission. Ariane officials hope to try again this week...
...Byrd, co-captain of the women's swimming team, this weekend's event will mark her final competition in a Harvard suit. In her four years with the Crimson, she has seen the team rise from an also-ran into defending Ivy League champions...