Word: stationers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inside Building 80, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's shabby concrete-and- tin inspection station on the outskirts of New York's John F. Kennedy + International Airport, a crate of bonsai trees en route from the Republic of China to Memphis has been pried open. In a nearby room rests a long cardboard box containing cut flowers from the Netherlands. Thousands of similar parcels pass through J.F.K. daily. On some holidays -- Mother's Day, for example -- one chartered plane may discharge 15,000 cartons of blooms and foliage. But the shipments sometimes hold more than flowers. They...
...because Littauer's gift was not sufficient to provide for the endowed professorships needed for an independent school, then Harvard President James B. Conant '13 decided that the school would serve Harvard better as a "switching station," integrating existing programs in the University...
...that the coverage has been or will be bad, or not comprehensive. Boston's WNEV-TV, Channel 7, for instance, is providing extensive pool coverage of the three convocations as well as several symposia, and will air a one-hour special on Harvard Saturday night. The station will also air today's speech by Prince Charles live, and air special reports throughout the celebration...
Dilger's 8-ft. cannon was in the back of his Dodge pickup truck when he pulled into a gas station in Arlington, Va. After filling up his gas tank, he started showing the weapon to his friend Joseph Donahue, a former Army pilot. Suddenly the gun slipped and discharged a shell, which tore through the side of the pickup, ignited a gasoline pump, hit a car and injured four people, three of them seriously. Dilger fled the scene but was arrested a short distance away. He and Donahue were charged with violating a state law against the manufacture...
...meeting this week to discuss the international implications of the Chernobyl disaster. About 80 nations were slated to send delegations. Participants are expected to approve a new accord in September for the sharing of information about any future nuclear accidents. Said Petrosyants: "The accident at the Chernobyl atomic-power station badly affected Soviet atomic-power engineering, and will undoubtedly have an effect on the world's atomic-power industry as a whole...