Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago, when commercial bank representatives meeting in London recommended that Warsaw be allowed to delay payment on $1.05 billion due before July 1. But that limited rollover agreement, as one Western banker put it, was like "applying a Band-Aid to a patient in the intensive care unit." Ultimately, Poland's creditors may have no choice but to shore up their profligate client. Since Warsaw has almost no recoverable assets abroad to offset losses, a default would be nearly as costly for the lenders as for the Poles themselves. Summed up a British banker in London...
...only Americans even close to the field are the three five-man Green Beret "small unit training teams," which conduct two-and three-week training programs for Salvadoran infantry companies. They are members of the 7th Special Forces Battalion based in Panama. All are fluent in Spanish, and most have previously served on similar training teams in other Central or South American countries. TIME Correspondent William McWhirter, who conducted the only interviews given by these officers, found them determined to approach their assignment with cool professionalism. "The only change for us is that there is a shooting war going...
...always, there was in-flight banter between the astronauts and the Houston control center. When Crippen felt Houston was loading him with too many tasks at one time-realigning the inertial navigational unit, shooting a picture of the Southern Lights, confirming a message on the teletype-he asked in mock seriousness: "You mean all that right now?" To jog the astronauts awake, Houston piped in a loud country and western ditty about the shuttle called The Mean Machine. There was a somewhat more serious moment when Vice President Bush got on the radio from Washington to congratulate them on behalf...
...most serious problem came on the second night when an alarm light flashed and a bell jolted Young and Crippen out of their reveries. It was a warning of a malfunction in a heating unit on one of the three auxiliary power units for Columbia's hydraulic systems, which control the landing gear and elevens. The heater keeps the unit's fuel from freezing up. A throw of a switch got it working again, but Columbia is such a masterpiece of engineering redundancy that any one of the units could have saved the day. Said Flight Director Neil...
...Karl Marx. I expect his views will still be well represented within the tutorial, not only as a free topic for tutors who may wish to devote a full tutorial unit to him, but also within the area of historiography and the pre-1700 topic "The Peasants' War of 1525" (of which I am the author). I also expect women to be well represented within the new list of topics, but as full members of the historical process, not as entities extracted out as if they were foreign objects...