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Word: watered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enough. In a city where the symphony is struggling to keep its head above water, the odds against a smaller group were evidently just too long. Although the ensemble plays more than 100 concerts a year and tours Europe annually, it needs help to meet the annual tab of about $500,000 for keeping its eleven musicians playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Michigan: The Music Fades | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...wingspan measures 112 ft. and the plane flies just 15 ft. above the ocean waves, even a second's pause would result in a quick dunking. To keep the human engine from sputtering, Nadel, with the Shaklee vitamin company, developed a lemon-flavored cocktail of energy-rich glucose, water and a blend of salts to nourish the pilot throughout the flight. In addition, Daedalus' team of five pilot-athletes staggered their training schedules, each of them bicycling an average of 450 miles a week so that one of them would be in peak physical form whenever the go-ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On The Wings of Mythology | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

Dukakis' father Panos left Pelopi for America in the early 1900s. Dukakis' second cousin Elli Petridou, who lives in nearby Mytilene, confides that Panos, then 15, left Greece against the wishes of his father, who had a store just across the water in Turkey. "Michael's grandfather sent a telegram to my father telling him to tie Panos up so he couldn't leave for America. Instead, my father got him an English teacher," she says conspiratorially. The rest is history: Panos became a doctor in Massachusetts and married a girl from the Greek town of Larissa, who became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rooting for Michalis | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

They are not alone. In Boston bridges and tunnels linking downtown to Logan Airport are routinely jammed. But the Airport Water Shuttle speeds riders from the waterfront district to Logan in seven minutes. A second service brings in commuters from the suburbs south of the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Bridges? | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...Island Ferry, by far the nation's busiest, costs just 25 cents for a round trip (vs. $1 for a subway or bus ride) and sails along with a $26 million annual deficit. Nevertheless, several prospective services are being proposed by entrepreneurs. In San Diego two firms have proposed water-taxi services to shuttle conventioneers and tourists between the city's new waterfront convention center and hotels and restaurants around the bay. In Detroit investors hope to re-establish international ferry service across the Detroit River to Windsor, Ontario. To such visionaries, the possibilities of doing business on water seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Bridges? | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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