Word: stations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Branch, 43, had bounced through a feckless radio career, winding up in 1983 as an announcer and general manager for WBGB, a tiny station in Mount Dora, Fla. In 1985, shortly before WBGB went bankrupt, he left in a dispute over back pay. Branch could not find another full-time job on the air, and the couple somehow blamed the U.S. Government for failing to take up his cause. In November, Cheryl Branch told a fellow tour member, "I'm going to write a book. I'm going to expose all the things that are wrong in the American system...
...Oberg, "there is no real experience anywhere on the effects of long-term, deep-space radiation exposure." Even so, with Romanenko's performance the Soviets bolstered their commanding lead over the U.S. in long-duration space flights. Soviet space officials have decreed that the current crew of the space station Mir, Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov, will stay in orbit for a full year...
...settings range from an Indian hill station to funky downtown Detroit. The protagonists include a 12th century monk and a modern gay insurance investigator. No wonder crime fiction often seems to be not one genre but many. Its best, most venturesome writers, like the players in Hamlet, perform in veins lyrical, tragical, comical and historical -- and above all enjoyable...
...leak, which spilled 600 gallons of oil into catch basins on the banks of the Charles River, was first detected Saturday night when Boston Edison engineers monitoring the pressure from a pumping station noticed a drop in oil pressure. The pipeline runs underneath the Charles, said Michael J. Monahan, the spokesman for the local electric company...
...when the corner gas station was leveled and replaced by an ugly mini- mall, Morris revolted. "My life has become an endurance test," he moans. He is now a zealous activist in the biggest grass-roots political movement to hit California since the property tax revolt a decade ago. A new battle cry -- Slow Growth -- is erupting from once placid neighborhoods plagued with congested streets and schools. Fed up with sprawling condos, office towers and mini-shopping centers plunked down among single-family houses, residents are demanding limits on unbridled real estate development. The state may never be the same...