Word: y
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Y is for the Yard. That's the home of Ed Krayer, Josh Caplan, Craig Taucher and Chris Biotti, the team's four freshmen...
...accepted what the mind could not: a sudden burst of white and yellow fire, then white trails streaming up and out from the fireball to form a twisted Y against a pure heaven, and the metal turning to rags, dragging white ribbons into the ocean. A terrible beauty exploded like a primal event of physics -- the birth of a universe; the death of a star; a fierce, enigmatic violence out of the blue. The mind recoiled in sheer surprise. Then it filled with horror...
Still, the way the boosters continued flying after the explosion prompted some experts to reject the likelihood of a burnthrough in either one. Hurled away from the exploding external tank, both rockets appeared to be moving rather stably, producing the awesome Y-shaped pattern that millions of Americans will never forget. A burnthrough on the side of the casing, several rocket specialists say, would have sent the booster cartwheeling wildly through space. Bob Truax, a retired engineer who directed the Thor missile program in the 1950s, agrees. "After the explosion, they were continuing on a fairly normal trajectory," he says...
Such problems have eroded popular confidence in the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), essentially a monopoly political group that changes its near absolutist leader every six years. The P.R.I. has dominated Mexico for more than half a century. During that time, says Manuel Garcia y Griego, a historian at the prestigious Colegio de Mexico, "economic growth has been the central pillar of the functioning of the system." Bruce Bagley, a Washington-based Latin American expert at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, warns that "if oil prices hold below $20 per bbl., it will be a disaster...
...Steve Y. Li '89 was leaving Lamont at roughly 10 p.m. January 29, when the men started running at him, he said. "Then one guy hit me and knocked me down," Li said, adding that he then hit his head on the pavement and lost consciousness...