Word: vegas
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Officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which made the announcement Wednesday, have said that the particles recently detected around the star Vega--one of the sky's brightest--could range in size anywhere from buckshot pellets to asteroids or large planets...
...linking up with Toyota, GM is making a virtue of necessity. Like other U.S. manufacturers, it has not been able to solve the manufacturing and financial equations of small cars. Design problems helped doom the Corvair in the 1960s and the Vega in the 1970s. The rear-wheel-drive Chevette, introduced in 1975, is obsolete and overdue for replacement. As a stopgap, GM has been planning to import 200,000 subcompacts made by Isuzu starting next year, and there are tentative plans to bring in up to 80,000 smaller minicars from Suzuki Motor Co. So far, the giant automaker...
...February 1977 he turned pro and began beating his way through the welterweight thicket on a course Manager Angelo Dundee had carefully laid to the championship. It started with Luis ("the Bull") Vega at the Civic Center in Baltimore. Most boxers start in four-round preliminaries, but Leonard's debut was a six-round main event and a $40,000 payday. It was televised nationally...
...think we're getting a fair shake," George Perez-Vega, vice president of the Brownstone Steering Committee, organizers of the event, complained yesterday. "We've been planning this party for three months, and four days before, they tell us we can't have it in the street...
...Perez-Vega said he decided to have the party on university property rather than risk another confrontation with police. But he questioned their sudden reversal, saying. "They should have asked us any questions when we applied for the permit...