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...Captain V. Ovchinnikov criticized in the letters column the training of submarine crews: "It will probably surprise you if I say that the nuclear installations on our submarines are operated by people who are not sufficiently trained, and some of them not trained at all. But we still set sail. The operators know and can do only 30% to 50% of what they should know and be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas Danger! | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...wind dries them, and then they inflate like lungs and rise on the desert air. They come out of the sea like Portuguese men-of-war and then, amphibious, as if in some Darwinian drama, sail off to litter another of the earth's last emptinesses. Reverse Darwin, really: devolution, a flight of death forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Welcome to The Global Village | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...Crimson attack swam through the flood of B.C. players and opened the lead to 7-3 before the Eagles could sail one by Leary...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Laxwomen Blow By B.C., 8-4 | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

Cunningham fouled the first pitch down third. After he looked at two low pitches from Dorrington, he fouled off the next two. Cunningham kept taking practice swings as he settled in the box. He looked at ball three, and then his patience payed off--he watched the pitch sail in low for ball four. Dorrington had walked...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: Boston University Rallies Past Batsmen, 10-6 | 4/28/1989 | See Source »

...first set my serve was on, and I wasspinning everything in," Berry said. "I got awayfrom my game plan in the second set and startedhitting the ball really hard. Of course when it'swindy out, the ball's going to sail...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: Quakers Crushed By Netmen, 8-1 | 4/8/1989 | See Source »

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