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...accusations and intraparty squabbling that was politically bloody even by the capital's standards, legislators and Ronald Reagan finally reached agreement on a budget resolution that set spending targets for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. Senate and House negotiators worked late into the night, and Reagan, in one spectacular heave, sandbagged the Senate leadership of his own party. Almost no one was happy with the watered-down document that emerged, and everyone faulted everyone else. Said North Dakota Senator Mark Andrews: "People are growing seven fingers on each hand so they can point their fingers...
David Long sounded as excited as a passenger aboard a space shuttle. "It was spectacular," he burbled. "It was like sitting in a big bubble and looking at a movie playing in front of you. We found sheer cliffs, we found pockmarked holes like dimples on a golf ball. And we found these little red marks all over the rocks." Long's exhilaration came not from leaving the earth's surface but from going beneath it, on the first submarine exploration to the bottom of one of the world's biggest bodies of fresh water, Lake Superior...
...Army's videotape is spectacular. As unmanned planes sweep into view, the high-tech antiaircraft gun on the ground swivels and blows them out of the sky. It looks like a brilliant performance by one of the Pentagon's most controversial new weapons, the Sergeant York division air-defense gun, known as the DIVAD. In a test last year, the gun's laser-and-radar guidance system could not even hit a stationary helicopter, one of many embarrassments for the problem-plagued system. This time, claimed the contractor, Ford Aerospace, the weapon destroyed "six of seven high-performance aircraft...
...Henize shouted, "Hallelujah, it looks like it's working!" only to watch it wobble off target. Conceded Henize: "That hallelujah was a bit too quick, wasn't it?" Later the astronauts jerry-rigged an arrangement to aim the three solar telescopes toward the sun in time to photograph a spectacular cascade of flares and nuclear eruptions. Four days into the mission, the crew and ground control had the IPS working as well...
...power of nature. The Brazilian side has the panoramas, while the Argentinean side offers proximity to the falls themselves. But viewing from both sides is necessary to complete the experience. There are a series of catwalks from which you can glimpse the 275 small waterfalls: each vista is more spectacular than the last, and comes with brilliantly-colored Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with...