Word: vegas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leading player in the detective show--Robert Urich, best-known for his role as Dan Tanna on the once-popular serial "Vega$"--was also on location, eliciting surprise and glee from star-struck passersby...
...pyrotechnics. Both are largely the contributions of Michael Mann, who joined the show as executive producer when NBC decided to turn Yerkovich's pilot into a series. Mann had directed the stylish film thriller Thief and the TV movie The Jericho Mile, as well as creating the TV series Vega$. But Miami Vice marked his first opportunity to bring a cinematic eye to the small screen...
...customers expressed their discontent violently. At one store in the city of Rosario, shoppers attacked clerks who tried to hike prices. Some law-abiding retailers complained that public opinion was turning against them. "We worry about the tone of the price-control operation," said Carlos de la Vega, a spokesman for the Argentine Chamber of Commerce. "People blame...
...vanguard of an international effort to study the comet, the Soviet Union recently launched two 4.5-ton unmanned space probes laden with cameras and sensors. And in an extraordinary show of East-West scientific collaboration, two U.S.-designed comet-dust analyzers are tucked aboard the Soviet vessels. Named Vega 1 and 2, after the first letters from the Russian words for Venus and Halley, the two craft are scheduled to deliver landing modules to the surface of Venus in June 1985; they will then spin off to rendezvous nine months later within 6,000 miles of Halley...
...Vega 1 and 2 will be joined by three other spacecraft. Next January, Japan will launch its MST5 probe, followed in July by the eleven-nation European Space Agency's spacecraft, Giotto, and Japan's second probe, PlanetA, in August. The five craft will be coordinated to analyze the comet from different distances, with the closest probe, Giotto, programmed to come within 300 miles...