Word: upper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Norton said the 22 divers aboard the Navy salvage ship USS Preserver concentrated their efforts in a zone where "good sonar images" showed the 10-by-17 foot "inertial upper stage" rocket was resting on the ocean bottom...
...extras. Women, in particular, tend to be unfamiliar with exercise devices. "If I say dipping station to women, they haven't a clue as to what that is," says Marilyn Mitchell, a fitness specialist in the Washington area. (It is a set of parallel bars used to build upper-body strength.) Sometimes their decisions seem dictated more by decor than duty. "Women want to know how many colors the machines come in," notes Mitchell. "Men don't care...
...hundred years since James penned the phrase, the men and women with offices on the hall's upper floors have begun to wonder about the neurological basis of that impulse. And they're using mainframe computers to do their research...
There are other obvious similarities between Stallone and the Harvard Establishment. It will be recalled how the Harvard Establishment gladly sent off Blacks, Hispanics, and working class white kids to die in Vietnam, while their pampered children enjoyed the luxury of a "safe" upper class education back at home. Meanwhile, where was Rambo while America was losing the war in Vietnam? Stallone, according to Jack Newfield, "ducked the draft during the Vietnam War (although he looks physically fit to me)." It seems Stallone went to an elite private school in Switzerland, then from 1967 to 1969 studied acting...
What seemed certain was that the casualties had been heavy--12,000 killed, according to some diplomats on the scene. By week's end it appeared that rebel forces were gradually gaining the upper hand. But with tribal reinforcements pouring into the capital from the hinterlands, the fighting was by no means over...