Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sign, Japanese officials later speculated for a time, that fire might have ignited the solid fuel of the three SSN5 missiles (range: about 750 miles) that the diesel-powered warship can carry. A day later, the sub was spotted again, this time with smoke billowing from the stern while accompanying tugs trained streams of water on it. Whatever the problem, the ship now seemed incapable of diving or even cruising on its own power...
State Department officials have insisted, however, that the Israelis must first tighten the country's belt several notches. In a 90-min. session with Finance Minister Yitzhak Moda'i last week, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis abandoned his mild-mannered style to deliver a stern lecture on frugality. "You are going to have to drop your standard of living and live within your means," he said. Moda'i seemed to take the injunction to heart when he described the Lewis get-together later to a group of Israeli manufacturers. "This was almost the motto...
Copaken has a small part in a romantic comedy about relationships in the 1980's, which stars Daniel Stern (Diner, Breaking Away, Blue Thunder) and Brooke Adams (Dead Zone, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Lace, a made for TV movie...
...delays stacked up last month, the FAA issued a stern warning to the airlines: either voluntarily reschedule flights at the six most congested airports (Atlanta's Hartsfield, the New York City area's Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark, Chicago-O'Hare and Denver's Stapleton) or the FAA would do it for them. A special immunity from antitrust prosecution was granted so that the air carriers could meet. Representatives from about 50 domestic and 15 international carriers last week began a six-day session in Crystal City, Va., outside Washington, to work out new flight schedules...
...people in many countries, especially [in] Europe." Moscow's chief negotiator at the 40-nation disarmament talks in Geneva made a point of putting the President's jest on the official record to illustrate U.S. "hostility" to the Soviet Union. In Western Europe, the West German weekly Stern appeared on newsstands with a cover that depicted Reagan wearing a clown's red plastic nose. Underneath were the words: PRESIDENT REAGAN'S JOKE: TO BE LAUGHED TO DEATH...