Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...known as Big Drunk. If you say Texas is rich, you can also say it is desperately poor and hardscrabble, and always has been. If you say it is ruggedly individualistic, you can also say it is meritlessly lucky to be built on top of a vast natural oil tank. If you say it is full of self-confident brag, you can also say it is terribly insecure (no contradiction, really). Texas has a sort of superiority-inferiority complex...
...latest allegations came at a time of mounting unrest between Israel and Syria. In recent weeks the Syrians have been building new tank and artillery emplacements in southern Lebanon. As Peres put it, Syrian forces have been steadily "creeping" toward Israel's northern border. Only last week Syrian- backed Lebanese guerrillas fired two Katyusha rockets across the border, wounding an Israeli and two of his children in Upper Galilee. Israel's costly 1982 war in Lebanon was supposed to have stopped such attacks...
March 8, 1981. Radioactive waste water leaked for several hours from a tank at a problem-ridden nuclear power station in Tsuruga, Japan. The Workers dispatched to mop it up were exposed to radiation. The problem was not disclosed publicly until six weeks after the accident, when radioactivity was detected in a nearby...
...shuttle's parts to substantiate the findings of NASA investigators and a presidential commission looking into the disaster. The probers have concluded that a joint between two segments of the shuttle's right booster failed, letting superhot gases escape and rapidly ignite liquid fuel from the external tank, causing an explosion 73 seconds into the flight...
...find the Cardinal's anti-Communism counterproductive and are put off by his insistence that the church, while obligated to take moral positions, must refrain from active political engagement. "The Catholic institution here is folkloric," says the Rev. Miguel Angel Casco, co-director of a pro-government religious think tank. "The revolution cannot make the new man without the church...