Word: sec
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bills. Bank tellers keep the funny money in their cash drawers and slip it into a robber's bag along with the other loot. An electronic beam at the bank doors trips the detonator as the money is carried outside, and the hidden package explodes within 20 sec...
...coded signal to a specially designed home or office radio. Subscribers can program their units to play news items about a specific company, industry or subject. The radio automatically crackles to life when information about a selected item is transmitted, and then falls silent. Most bulletins last 60 sec. or less. DowAlert, which is initially being marketed in Boston and Philadelphia, will cost $50 a month, after a $150 installation...
...picked off five red marauders as they attacked his yellow goal. A very long period of woods noises and bug bites followed. Then, less than 15 min. before the game's 2-hr, limit expired, Smith slipped away into the brush. More woods noises; then with 30 sec. to go, Smith crashed into view with a captured red flag and sagged to the ground, chest heaving. He had knocked off the last remaining red defender and won the game. From the woods around, players he had splotched earlier stood up and cheered. Then all of us went...
...become a Washington joke. This time, however, Reagan was also worn down by the friction and was fully pre pared to let Haig go. Yet, until the very moment that an obviously strained and tense Reagan stepped before the TV cameras to make his terse (1 min. 11 sec.) announcement of Haig's resignation, there had been no hint that the President had not only agreed to his departure but had already chosen a successor. The nation, the world and even members of the National Security Council who had attended a luncheon meeting with Reagan and Haig that broke...
...shook Gerry Cooney's hand before the fight and I shook his hand after the fight. No hard feelings." For his part, Cooney said of Holmes, "He's the champion. No bitterness." Cooney finally conceded, "I was a little rusty." A cumulative total of 3 min. 43 sec. in two fights over two years is an insufficient time in the ring. "I didn't have the push I should have had. I will next time...