Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inhaled the fumes of the foliage that had been killed by Agent Orange." Before long, he says, he began suffering from diarrhea, vomiting and headaches, and in 1969 was given an honorable discharge. Back in West Babylon, N.Y., the veteran's health deteriorated rapidly; today the unemployed steam fitter's ailments include brain lesions and degenerative joint disease...
...ICBM was propelled out of a canister by a burst of steam. Then a solid-fuel engine kicked in, and the missile began its 4,100-mile flight from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. In 30 minutes, its six dummy warheads splashed down where they were aimed in the South Pacific, near Kwajalein atoll. The target was apt: in the same Marshall Islands chain is Bikini atoll, site of the first peacetime atomic blast 36 years ago next week...
...Palmer. New York perhaps But in Boston those are some of the assorted artists to show up in the last week of June. Beantown you'll quickly discover, is second only to the Big Apple and perhaps L.A in terms of the quality and variety of national acts that steam through as well as the liveliness of the local music scene...
...Federal Reserve finally relented last summer and allowed money to expand faster. The prime, which stood at 16½% at the time, tumbled to 10½% earlier this year and has remained there while the economic recovery has picked up steam. Some experts argue that Volcker had no choice but to let up; others give him high marks for good sense and good timing. Says Irwin Kellner, chief economist for Manufacturers Hanover Trust: "He squeezed the daylights out of the economy until it really hurt, but he was wise enough to know when...
...Weather published twice last fall before it ran out of steam--and funds. "We had good writers, but it was a problem getting advertising money," says editor Peter J. Howe '86. The paper's features included articles on freshmen who commute to Harvard, a freshman Spactacus Youth League leader, and a poll...