Word: weather
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite fighting stuffy weather conditions, the Harvard men's and women's cross country teams ran intense races Saturday afternoon in Smithfield, Rhode Island...
When Mark Phillips entered the dressage arena of Seoul's new $83 million equestrian park last week, neither luck nor the weather was with him. Dressed in customary black hunting cap and swallowtail coat, the husband of Britain's Princess Anne began the first stage of the grueling three-day equestrian event under a hard, wind-driven rain and placed a mediocre 28th out of 40. Phillips' lot did not improve on the second day: his mount Cartier failed to withstand the speed and endurance test on an obstacle course replete with bamboo hedges and water traps. At that point...
Sudan has more problems besides fickle weather. For five years, the government of Africa's largest country (more than three times the size of Texas) has been paralyzed by a bloody civil war against secessionist guerrillas in the south. Since 1986, Sudan has been ineligible for loans from the International Monetary Fund because of an inability to service its $12 billion debt. In April, Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi's failure to deal with the country's accumulating crises brought down his second government in two years. As if all those woes were not enough, a plague of locusts...
Launch, at 11:37 a.m. EDT, came only after NASAwaived weather guidelines to allow for flightthrough some lighter-than-usual Florida winds. The98-minute delay simply heightened the tension asNASA unveiled a spaceship that underwent more than400 modifications since the Challenger flight...
Late Wednesday night, Air Force weather spokesman Mike Beeman estimated there was a 90 percent chance the weather would permit a launch today. But he said winds that were currently 10 knots out of the north were expected to shift to eastnortheast by morning, which would blow across the landing runway. Launch criteria allows no more than a 12-knot crosswind, in case the orbiter must return for an emergency landing...