Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most popular exhibit seems to be a zigzagging channel of water that acts as a slide, transporting sponges and submarines from one tank of water to another...
Catherine, 10, from Boston, says that she approves of the sliding tank mainly "because they [the sponges] move around on their own. It's not hard to do, like the bubble one," she says...
Another, Leah, age 4 and visiting Boston from New York City's Bronx, said she liked the water slide because "it's so hot I think I might just jump in. I might bump my head though," she said about the 3 foot diameter tank...
...first exhibit shows a group of three tin washtubs standing one above the other, with water flowing from the top one down to the bottom in waterfall fashion. Plastic lobsters and fuschia rubber fish make their way down the tanks until the children figure out how to pump the water back up to the top tank again...
...commander and former military attache in Moscow, says the Soviet pullback "doesn't count for too much in a military sense," since the division that was withdrawn could return on short notice. General Chai Chengwen, first deputy chairman of the Beijing Institute for International Strategic Studies (BIISS), a think tank connected with the National Defense Ministry, says, "The Soviet Union is looking for excuses to delay its withdrawal from Afghanistan." From Deng on down, Chinese spokesmen say that Kampuchea, still occupied by Moscow's Vietnamese allies, remains the main obstacle...