Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three balloons radioed their crossing to Minsk, but according to Andreas Spenger, the race's chief organizer, they merely received a stream of Russian in reply, even though English is the accepted language in international aviation. "They took that for acknowledgment, though," said Spenger, "because all knew that Minsk had been duly informed in advance." As the morning progressed, Spenger continued to monitor the balloons' eastward drift, reporting their positions every half hour to Minsk...
Amidst the daily rough and tumble of College life, with its endless stream of contentious issues, tensions and conflicts, it's sometimes hard to remember that all of us--whether conservative or liberal student group, seemingly unreasonable administrator or demanding student--are all part of the same community. It's too bad that it takes a shocking event to make us remember that one collegiate fact...
...entry in my notebook for May 18 is significant. "Contact 0805. 1 V.C. KIA..." We had been patrolling a gorge fed by a rushing stream that covered up our noise. For once, our point squad spotted the V.C. before they spotted us. For once, we did the ambushing. We nailed them. A hail of fire dropped several V.C., and the rest fled. We approached gingerly. One man lay motionless on the ground, the first Viet Cong that I could definitely confirm we had killed in action. He lay on his back, gazing up at us with sightless eyes...
...Haven't they heard what black people have been telling them all these years: that the ranks of major police departments all across the country are full of Fuhrman-style lying bigots? Not all cops, by any means, not even most of them, but enough to generate a steady stream of racially motivated police misconduct. Most of it never makes the national news--the hundreds of cases in which minority suspects are manhandled, beaten or even killed. But certainly the most outrageous incidents, from the assault on Rodney King to the six Philadelphia cops who have pleaded guilty to framing...
...press conference last week, Police Chief Willie Williams answered a stream of Fuhrman-related questions in angry bursts. He reiterated his objections to the idea that his officers are framing Simpson, maintaining that "it is inconceivable that behind this one murder all of a sudden you're going to get 10, 20, 30 or 40 people ... from six or seven different department organizations, to plot against Mr. Simpson." As for Fuhrman's descriptions of police misconduct, Williams snapped: "We have zero tolerance for racism, sexism and any type of anti-Semitism. That is nonnegotiable...