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WASHINGTON--A nuclear-powered Soviet submarine appears to have sunk more than 300 miles off the coast of Norway after suffering an underwater accident and catching fire, U.S. and Norwegian officials said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Sub Suffers Accident Off Norway | 4/8/1989 | See Source »

...addition to the $37 million purchase price he paid Murdoch, who reportedly lost $150 million in the twelve years he owned the paper, Kalikow has already sunk $17 million into the Post. The Chicago-based Tribune Co., owner of the Daily News, has spent more than $100 million reviving the paper since it nearly folded in 1982, while the Los Angeles-based Times-Mirror Co. has invested about the same amount in its attempt to create a New York paper by expanding Newsday from its profitable base on Long Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Last Stand of the Tabloids | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...think it has sunk in yet," Roy says. "I couldn't ask for anything better. I hope we can go all the way to the NCAA Championships...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A Goalie By Any Other Name... | 3/10/1989 | See Source »

Then strength and her adventurer's enchanted luck took over. She swung her ice ax, sunk it into the snow face and performed a perfect self-arrest, just the way they teach it in climbing school. She ditched the oxygen bottle and found her Sherpa. The only thing she could see by this time was the blue of his boots, so she followed the moving blue blobs. The next day her eyes were swollen shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climbing Mount Everest: What It Takes To Reach the Summit | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...lies." The English-language Egyptian Gazette argued that the Ayatullah's pronouncements "will do more to damage the image of Islam in the West than any words of Mr. Rushdie." Concluded the paper: "Without the outcry, the book might have sold some tens of thousands of copies and then sunk into oblivion as being too obscure for the general interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism The New Satans | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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