Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mouth the proper sympathies, but Belushi's tragedy provides a welcome reassurance that celebrity and riches sometimes becomes a bad trip. Asked by Barbara Walters why many fashioned the super-rich an unhappy lot, the wife of Gordon Getty, America's richest man, replied, "People like to think you can't have everything. Well...
...about 100 billion stars revolving in the Milky Way. All stars spin toward the center of the pinwheel-shaped galaxy, and each trip to the middle takes about 250 million years...
...spins inward it also bobs up and down through an imaginary plane that intersects the galaxy. The complete up-and-down trip through the debris-filled galaxy takes about 67 million years, and the sun slips through the most crowded region every 33 million years. During this time it could be blocked by the debris. The 33 million-year period corresponds roughly to the 26-million year cycle of extinction postulated by Raup and Sepkoski and the differences between the two figures can be accounted for by uncertainties in astronomical and geological datings, say the originators of the theory, Richard...
...Leipzig, students returning for the first day of school were asked to display pictures that they had drawn of tanks protecting their homeland from the West. Stories began to spread that Honecker would have to endure insults and would be pelted with eggs and tomatoes if he made the trip...
...West German exhibition at the Leipzig Trade Fair early last week. Said a Bonn official who watched the puzzling performance: "That was not the look of a man about to go West." A West German environmentalist who met with Honecker shortly after the decision to postpone the trip was made public said that the East German leader had complained about the "gross insults" he had received from Bonn. But Honecker also expressed his continuing determination to "limit the damage" from the arms race in Europe. Said a U.S. official: "He took it as far as he could, and then decided...