Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Il-76 cargo plane lifted slowly into the bright morning air over Kabul International Airport last week. As it did, a string of incandescent flares dropped from the aircraft, a necessary defense against Stinger missiles, the U.S.-made, heat-seeking, antiaircraft weapons used by the mujahedin, Afghanistan's resistance. On the airport perimeter, sunburned Soviet soldiers stood around a formidable new stone-and-cement guard post topped by a hammer-and-sickle flag. Their thoughts were turning toward withdrawal from their flinty outpost. "Who wouldn't like to go home?" asked Victor Avershin, a blond, 19-year-old private...
...forced to quit after admitting he gave reporters a video tape showing Biden quoting liberally without attribution from a British politician's speech. Those reports led to a string of disclosures which forced Biden from the presidential race...
Designers got the message the hard way. Those urban ranks of briefcase- toting women in their boxy suits and string ties really did mean business. "For the first time, working women have voted with their pocketbooks," says Alan Millstein, publisher of the Fashion Network Report, an industry newsletter. "No serious executive female wants to look like Tina Turner when she goes to work." Millstein is among several commentators who point the finger at Women's Wear Daily Editorial Director John Fairchild, perhaps the most powerful voice in American fashion, especially among buyers, for pushing the short length too hard. Ordinarily...
...frustrate his ambition). Wells clearly had the right stuff, especially as a financial man, but his most emphatic advice to Roy Disney was to hire Michael Eisner, president of Paramount Pictures. In eight years as the No. 2 man at Paramount, Eisner had been the wunderkind behind a string of hits, ranging from Saturday Night Fever to Terms of Endearment...
Felsen started off the string by scoring at the 9:10 mark of the first half. Ten seconds later, Katie McAnaney put Harvard on top to stay. Felsen then took control, assisting Co-Captain Cindi Ersek, scoring off a feed from Char Joslin, and assisting Ersek with two minutes and thirty seconds remaining in the half...