Word: settings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought. Senior Airman Danny Joe Stroud and his alleged accomplice, Airman 1st Class Brian David Roth, hadn't reckoned on Operation Punchout, a sting that ran a phony purchasing company set up by the FBI and military investigators to buy hot military gear. Along with the pricey jet engines, the sting netted a "warehouseful" of items, from canteens to jet instrumentation. Stroud, his wife Kimberly and Roth were charged with stealing the engines. They pleaded not guilty. Twelve others have also been indicted on related charges. "Many of the participants are military policemen, and we find that especially disturbing," commented...
...spill, there is no proof that Hazelwood was drunk when his ship ran aground. In fact, his crewmates claim he was not. A test given about ten hours after the grounding found that his blood-alcohol level was a little more than half the 0.1% drunk-driving limit set by the state of Alaska and 50% higher than the 0.04% limit set by the Coast Guard for seamen operating a moving ship. Some toxicologists have suggested that Hazelwood may have had a severely high 0.22% blood-alcohol level when the ship struck the reef. A more plausible theory is that...
...parents went out that weekend in 1969 and bought a television set so they could watch it. Like the rest of the nation, they were enthralled and enraptured by the prospect of a human being setting foot on the surface of another world...
...simple answer is that the notion of preferential treatment for Blacks is an illusion. Affirmative action is a poor substitute for true equality of opportunity; without it, quotas, set asides and welface create nothing but false conceptions of preferential treatment, reverse discrimination and resentment among those taxed to support such programs...
Harvard has indicated that it may file an amendment to its master plan to accommodate the building purchase and administration officials have said they want to set up a mechanism with the community to avoid a repeat of this summer's dispute...