Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spotlight on Eastern intensified in April 1984, when U.S. Customs Service agents seized one of the company's jumbo jets after discovering 3 lbs. of coke under the cockpit. Federal investigators enlisted the help of Eastern Chairman Frank Borman, who gave his mechanics the go-ahead to help agents search planes for illegal stashes. The current probe began last August after Customs agents found two coke shipments totaling 1,722 lbs., or $430 million worth, aboard Eastern flights from Colombia. Investigators discovered that the contraband was generally stuffed into suitcases by baggage handlers in Colombia and then slipped through Customs...
...complaining that "we have a 'life is cheap' philosophy fed to young people." Others expressed the wistful hope that somewhere in the seemingly pointless deaths lay a lesson for the community. Said Assistant School Superintendent Rene Hlavac: "The three young people left us a message and we need to search and find...
Nguyen works on post-mortem human brains, and authored a paper which he submitted to the Westinghouse Science Talent Search competition--the nation's oldest science contest for high school seniors. His paper dealt with how magnesium and vitamin C interact with antipsychotic drugs in the human brain and nervous system...
Since the science talent search began 45 years ago, five recipients have gone on to win Nobel prizes. Two have earned Fields medals, considered the highest honor in mathematics. Twenty-four have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences...
...Things are different out here," says Dennis Holcomb of Shive-Hattery Engineers in Des Moines, whose search helped find Fibercraft for Sac City. Says Holcomb: "Iowa is full of small towns that can't come up with tax exemptions or low-interest loans the way bigger cities can in the East. So they turn to their friends and neighbors. It's truly a heartening thing...