Word: vans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheduled to launch the ROSAT X-ray telescope, the Gamma Ray Observatory and Ulysses, the first probe to study the sun's polar regions. But some experts worry about relying too heavily on the shuttle. "I certainly hope that these missions will go off as planned," says James Van Allen, the University of Iowa physicist who discovered the Van Allen radiation belts that ring the earth. "But the shuttle is not out of the woods yet. After Challenger, NASA should have made a decision to go to expendable rockets for all space science...
Modern life seems ever more terrifying. A passenger jet explodes over Scotland. The wife of the captain of the U.S.S. Vincennes leaps out of her van an instant before a pipe bomb blows it up on a San Diego street. A Japanese Red Army terrorist, allegedly heading for a Navy recruiting station in Manhattan, is nabbed on the New Jersey Turnpike with shrapnel bombs. Bookstores in Berkeley are fire bombed for selling Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses...
...growth of huge regional discount stores -- despite all the convenience they provide -- has been devastating for many small downtowns, since one shopping center can draw customers away from a dozen or more communities. Says Robert Van Hook, executive director of the National Rural Health Association: "Wal-Marts are the last nails in the coffins of a lot of rural Main Streets." Because downtown retail shops are important employers, their decline can be fatal to the rest of the town's economy as well. Another major small-town employer, the local hospital, is disappearing at the rate of more than...
...that rural America must shift its dependence from production of low-value, high-volume products like grain and simple manufactured goods to high-tech manufacturing and services. To make that transition, business and government would have to pump more money into rural schools, hospitals, roads and other infrastructure. Says Van Hook: "We have to make some investments in rural America...
WHAT exactly happened to two Black Harvard students around 9 p.m. last Tuesday night remains muddled. Witnesses say the pair had run to catch a University shuttle bus when, upon boarding, several police cars blocked the van and a Black police officer shined a flashlight in their faces and ordered them to get off. The pair were then searched without explanation and, after officers found nothing, were left without notice of why they were stopped, the students...