Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Caracas' Simón Bolivar Airport were not surprised that the two men were able to board the Aeropostal flight carrying pistols. However, the Air France hijackers eluded security checks at Frankfurt International Airport, which boasts some of the toughest safeguards in the world. No airport X-ray machine or magnetic scanner can detect the liquid explosives the men carried. Moreover, some hostages believe the guns were in a mysterious bag delivered to the hijackers by Iranians at the Tehran airport...
...history of men's gymnastics." Among his potential successors, Jim Lampley comes across as better informed and shrewder than he was at Sarajevo, but the most natural and adroit performer is Kathleen Sullivan, who appears headed for a major news anchor slot. ABC's worst efforts include Ray Gandolf's report on buying breakfast at a trendy Los Angeles beanery (he had three frankfurters) and former U.S. Olympic Hockey Captain Mike Eruzione's burbling about how much fruit there is for sale at Farmers Market. During the day the network seems determined to pander...
Last week a ray of hope pierced the gloom surrounding and one of the world's biggest health problems. Two groups scientists, one at New York University Medical Center, the other at the National Institutes of Health and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, announced they had taken a major step toward creating the first malaria vaccine. The teams reported in the journal Science that they had synthesized a constituent of the malaria parasite that could trigger immunity to the disease. "This is the protein that is important in developing protective antibodies against the initial stage...
...committee agreed to coordinate this visibility and turned the job over to Jerde's firm, The Jerde Partnership, which specializes in creating an urban ambience for shopping centers and commercial districts. Jerde in turn recruited Designer Sussman, 53, a former art director in the office of Charles and Ray Eames, who now has her own firm with her husband Paul Prejza. Says L.A.O.O.C. General Manager Harry L. Usher: "We wanted to get away from the trivial, and yet not get solemnly hooked into red, white and blue...
...Nadia Comaneci created gymnastics for most Americans, not because Americans never heard of gymnastics, but because they had not seen the sport performed by virtuosos. A subtle surprise of the Olympics is how individuals can transform the events in which they participate. Boxing enrages and disgusts you. Then Sugar Ray Leonard skips into the ring, and the sport is God and country...