Word: sagaing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...site is expected to look something like a mining operation. The method of waste transport is also an issue unaddressed by the bill. The preferred mode is by train; the Energy Department claims success testing a 150-ton railcar cask able to withstand crashes and fires. In the lengthy saga of nuclear-waste disposal, acknowledged a spokesman for the Atomic Industrial Forum, a trade group for the nuclear industry, "transportation could be the next big issue." Said David Berick of the Environmental Policy Center: "One of the reasons the bill went through was because people were just tired of working...
Monday After the Miracle. This is a tale of fiercely kindled passions and the bittersweet bondage of entwined destinies. It takes up the saga of Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan and John Macy, the man Annie wed, some 20 years after the events in Playwright William Gibson's earlier The Miracle Worker. Karen Allen, Jane Alexander and William Converse-Roberts irradiate their roles...
Life On Earth (PBS). A tale of wonders, the saga of evolution and the ascent of life, from bacteria to man, lovingly told by British Host David Attenborough...
Your story on the Lear Fan turboprop plane, "Saga in Epoxy" [Nov. 15], was well researched and accurate. However, Bob Burch's expectation that the Lear Fan will be certified by the Federal Aviation Administration in the "summer of 1983" is based on unfounded optimism and lack of experience. If Burch's group is willing to put in an extra $200 million on top of the $90 million it has already invested, it might obtain certification...
...press coverage, the territory is more often called by its official label--South-West Africa--than by the native derivative it will supposedly assume when and if it gains its independence. The longer Western viewers think of it as South-West Africa, the more they tend to blur its saga together with that of South Africa--the nation which has held power in Namibia since 1920 under a League of Nations mandate, and which still refuses to relinquish the territory despite repeated World Court and United Nations demands...