Word: windowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through the fogged window of the Moscow-Tambov express, the early-morning sky seemed so gray and thick that the horizon blended imperceptibly into fields of snow. Children on their way to school dawdled by a railway crossing, the flaps of their fur hats sticking out like ungainly wings. A settlement of wooden farmhouses with carved filigree windows swept by, seemingly unchanged in centuries."So, you're really going to Tambov," said a Moscow friend, surprised that I would be traveling to such a provincial and undeveloped place. "There's a Russian saying: the Tambov wolf is your comrade...
...these people wanted to get hurt," Pusey says. "They were trying to act like they were being brutalized, but Dean Ebert [of the Medical School] was there, and he could tell you there was no brutality of any kind. I think there was one girl that jumped out the window and may have broken an arm or something like that, but I don't think anybody else ever went to the infirmary. The reports of violence were just not true. There was no violence at all. The police just pushed you, they just trucked them right down the stairs...
Gingrich employed a different device. According to the Washington Post, he persuaded 21 supporters to contribute $105,000 to promote Window of Opportunity, a book on the "American future" that the Georgian co-authored in 1984 with his wife Marianne and a science fiction writer, David Drake. Though the book sold only 12,000 hard-cover copies and failed to make a profit for its publisher, the investors reaped tax benefits for their contributions. They also paid Marianne Gingrich nearly $10,000 for her efforts. Gingrich admitted last week that his book deal was "as weird as Wright...
...early October a 40-day window will open for the shuttle launch of Galileo, a craft that will head toward the sun, swing around Venus, and then use the earth's gravity to sling itself out to Jupiter. When it arrives in late 1995, Galileo will drop a probe into the seething maelstrom of the giant planet's atmosphere. Then Galileo will rove through the Jovian system to explore its moons...
...early 1981, National Security Agency officials working at an intelligence facility in suburban Washington made an alarming discovery: someone had made off with a sizable haul of classified information. The thief did not jimmy open a window at the well-guarded site; instead, he gained access to a "secure" cable leading into the facility and was able to trespass electronically. NSA officials believed the breach was the work of an East bloc spy agency...