Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John McEnroe go on milking their death scene from Camille; the Connecticut- Czechoslovak Ivan Lendl continues to stand by, waiting for U.S. citizenship; and Becker simply makes everyone smile. Losing to the sleepiest of the Swedes, he obstreperously slammed down his racket and curdlingly called out to the sky. But at the end, Becker gently touched Edberg's golden trophy and charmed people again. "I just wanted to remember how it felt," Boris laughed...
Last week that trip moved a step closer to reality. From its launching pad at the Baikonur space complex, near Tyuratam in the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, a Proton rocket carrying an unmanned spacecraft rose on an orange and blue column of fire that illuminated the night sky. Turning lazily eastward, the rocket sent the craft off on an ambitious mission: to scout Mars and probe Phobos, one of its two tiny moons. Far below at the sprawling complex, technicians swarmed over a sister ship that is scheduled to be launched this week on a similar mission. Exulted Roald Sagdeyev...
...Persian Gulf. By 8:11 a.m. he had a written message on reports that the downed plane may have been a civilian airliner. At 9:52 a.m. there was a call suggesting there was something to the story that an Airbus had been blown out of the sky...
JACKSON and Dukakis' friendship has been going down hill since they had dinner at the governor's home on July 4th. It is said that there were more fireworks in the Dukakis' home than there were in the sky...
Immigrants still come for that promise, but the U.S. has wavered in its faith. America is no longer sure that economic strength derives from individualism. And America is no longer sure that there is space enough, sky enough, to sustain the cabin on the prairie. Now, as we near the end of the American Century, two alternative cultures beckon the American imagination: the Asian and the Latin American. Both are highly communal cultures, in contrast to the literalness of American culture. Americans devour what they might otherwise fear to become. Sushi will make them lean, subtle corporate warriors. Combination Plate...