Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy called Weinberger's removal of officers before an investigation extraordinary, the Defense Secretary said this kind of reprimand would become "standard" for such excesses. A spokesman for Grumman Aerospace Corp., the defense contractor that made the ashtrays for the E-2C surveillance aircraft it also manufactures, explained the sky-high price tag: "We are not ashtray manufacturers." Grumman has offered the Navy a refund that will lower the price to $50 an ashtray, but Weinberger has better ideas for dealing with the inflated cost. He proposed, only half-jokingly, to substitute "old mayonnaise jars for ashtrays...
Well, yes. It also happens that the world is full of formerly "site- specific" art, from the Elgin Marbles and the horses of San Marco to any number of detached frescoes and tombs that have not died from being moved. As the Great Structuralist in the Sky would put it, loss of context means enrichment by recontextualization, and site-specific is as site-specific does. What it does here is serve as a mere scrim for the question of Serra's rights as an artist who, much as his opponents may now resent it, can be argued to have...
...They were dirty looking, scroungy . . . He grabbed me by both wrists." Tall, tan Kari Swenson, 23, a member of the U.S. biathlon team, was testifying about what happened to her when she encountered two strange men last July while on a training run not too far from the Big Sky resort in Montana. "The old man said they just wanted to talk for a while. He said, 'We don't get many women up in the mountains that we can talk...
...deal, however, suggest that he has a more ambitious plan in mind. After all, here is a shrewd financier spending a great deal of money and giving up his citizenship for half a dozen stations that will not pay back their purchase price for years to come. Murdoch operates Sky Channel, a satellite station that supplies English- language programming to more than 1.6 million homes in Britain and Europe. He also owns two TV stations in Australia. Once Fox steps up production for its TV outlets, Murdoch in turn could transmit the new programs to his foreign viewers at relatively...
...carried by AWACS planes. Though the balloons have been known to come unleashed (one wanderer had to be shot down in 1981), airborne radar is still more efficient than the ground version. It can pick up traffic in what Customs agents call "Smugglers' Alley," a wide band of Caribbean sky that is virtually invisible to land-based radar dishes because the curvature of the earth prevents them from detecting objects close to the ground. When Fat Albert or one of his big buddies sights a suspicious flight, Customs officials send out a plane to track it. Says Customs Agent...