Word: rossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Navy Commander Robert L. Gibson, the Atlantis crew commander, sat through seven postponements of the shuttle Columbia's liftoff in 1986. Other crew members include Lt. Col. Guy S. Gardner, Col. Richard M. Mullane, and Lt. Col. Jerry L. Ross of the Air Force, and Navy Commander William M. Shepherd. Gardner and Shepherd are on their first shuttle mission. The others have flown before...
...that still performs its own songs. Their repertoire consists of about 40 tunes that they have written themselves plus about 10 cover tunes, says bassist Andrew E. Bush '90. Other members of the band include guitarist Daniel A. Brenner '85-86, drummer Richard C. Peaslee '89 and guitarist Michael Ross...
GREEN Fuse started two and half years ago when Brenner and Ross met as editors of a Harvard Student Agencies travel guide. Brenner and Ross added bassist Robert Todd, a Tufts graduate, Melissa Dubroff '86 on percussion and back-up vocals and Peaslee to complete their band. They borrowed their name from a Dylan Thomas poem...
...When Ross Johnson, president of RJR Nabisco, proposed last month that the tobacco-and-food conglomerate he had helped assemble only three years earlier be "put into play" and broken up, he had reason to believe that the company's board of directors would support him. After all, he had treated the outside directors on RJR's board well, paying them lavish fees and providing access to the company's corporate jets. Moreover, his offer was the largest leveraged-buyout bid in history and would give RJR's stockholders a rich, immediate payout...
...Jailed or detained for more than five years, and exiled for two more, she returned triumphantly in 1986 as the leader of the Pakistan People's Party (p.p.p.). Deaf to criticism of her autocratic father, she seems determined to do what is necessary to restore his reputation. TIME correspondents Ross H. Munro and Edward W. Desmond spoke with her at home...