Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struck the ground. The NTSB criticized the lack of crew coordination and concluded dryly, "The captain attempted both to determine the cause of the vibration and fly the airplane simultaneously, which he was unable to do." In fact, the open door would not have been a hazard if the sound had been properly diagnosed...
...defeated in battle or expelled from Honduras, or both, Reagan's strategists see the bleakest of choices. Some warn that the U.S. might have to consider an American invasion of Nicaragua in the year ahead. The alternative would be an unsatisfactory political settlement with the Sandinistas. Some strategists sound as if they are not quite sure which would be worse...
...suite's residents, Michael D. Cooperson '87, was sleeping when the blaze broke out. Cooperson is not thought to be responsible for the fire in any way. He awoke at the sound of the smoke alarm and safely left the building...
...MOST SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE That of Giacomo Puccini and Kiri Te Kanawa; his music and her voice gave A Room with a View the year's loveliest sound track...
...rules. In restoring her country's freedoms, for example, she is content to go about her business while Marcos loyalists stir up trouble in the streets and Cabinet ministers speak their minds to the 26 daily newspapers in rumor-mad Manila. The resulting appearance of dissentious sound and fury is, she says, simply a sign of the government's self-confident strength: democracy in action. Others take it for weakness...