Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ship is a Yankee-class sub-marine, which according to the Jane's Fighting Ships, is an old-class submarine that first appeared in the mid-1960s, capable of carrying 16 missiles. Each ship has two nuclear reactors to drive two steam turbines...
When it comes to flinging a football and blowing off steam, nobody puts it together better than Jim McMahon. So the Chicago Bears quarterback was a natural to talk about stress for Connections, a biweekly series of billboard topics posted in 1,500 high schools around the country. Despite the munching pose he struck for one poster, McMahon rarely takes it out on the ball. His tips for coping with strain: "I never really worry about things before they happen. I let things happen and I deal with them then . . . It's important to keep your sense of humor...
...Brazilian federal police have conducted dozens of raids across the country aimed at shrinking a rapidly growing black market in U.S. currency. The widespread illegal activity seemed to indicate rising fears among the citizenry that President Jose Sarney's well-publicized anti-inflation campaign might be running out of steam...
...service for twelve. Business entertainment is given as one reason for these wonders. Playing with trains is the fuller explanation. If you are going to play, however, why not do things in a big way? In 1973 Entrepreneur Roy Thorpe, 50, from Fort Lauderdale, was talked into taking a steam locomotive excursion from Hoboken, N.J., to Binghamton, N.Y. Hitched to the train was the Clover Colony, a perfectly restored Pullman. Thorpe had a couple of whiskey sours while watching the Delaware Water Gap recede from the car's veranda. "It was a soul-stirring sight," he says. The next year...
World economic performance would be much more sprightly were it not for the sluggishness of the U.S. During 1983 and 1984, the U.S. was a powerful locomotive for global growth, but last year the engine began to run out of steam. At the moment, American industry is operating at only 79% of its capacity, the lowest level since...