Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leading universities have established. "If you are an Asian-American student applying to Harvard, you have the lowest chance of getting in," says Peter Kiang, who teaches Asian-American studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. John Bunzel, a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford, says he has found indications that Stanford, Harvard, Princeton and Brown discriminate against Asian Americans in their admissions policy...
While the government has earned praise for ending the Hyundai crises peacefully, it is wary of mediating again -- especially if that leads to financial bailouts. "The less of it, the better for everybody," says Suh Sang Mok of the Korea Development Institute, a government think tank. Intervening in remaining disputes may also be logistically impossible. At one point last week, the Labor Ministry reported that 485 companies were plagued by labor strife...
...late 1981 or early 1982 worked out a deal, which later fell through, to obtain a top-of-the-line T-72 Soviet battle tank from Iraq, a Soviet client, in return for American self-propelled artillery weapons for the Iraqi army...
...departure gate, mechanics discovered that a loose bolt had punched a hole in a 727's fuel tank, causing a leak. King says the hole was plugged with an unauthorized, quick-hardening plastic sealer so that the plane could depart. A supervisor concealed the improper patch job by not recording it in the aircraft's logbook. The hole was not correctly repaired with a metal plate until later that week...
...release of the dolphins was the work of the Oceanic Research Communication Alliance, a ragtag team of dolphin lovers and scientists. Most previous attempts to release captive dolphins have been ad hoc or ill conceived. In 1977, for example, animal liberationists "freed" two dolphins from a tank in Hawaii. Hours later one of them was briefly spotted foundering on a reef, badly lacerated. Even so, scientists and conservationists are - increasingly interested in readapting captive or injured sea animals to the wilds. Last month the New England Aquarium, with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, organized a successful attempt...