Word: mile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will let out a long-delayed cheer. At last the Galileo mission, which has languished for more than a decade because of technical debates and the Challenger explosion, will be getting under way. Astronauts on Atlantis will release the Galileo spacecraft, setting it on a six-year, 2.5 billion-mile journey to Jupiter. There the probe will take the first direct measurements of the planet's dense clouds and hurricane-like winds...
...Democrats John Dingell of Michigan, a dogged opponent of auto regulation, and California's Henry Waxman, a champion of even stricter standards for clean air. The compromise proposal would cut emissions of nonmethane hydrocarbons, a key ingredient in smog, which can now average no more than 0.41 gram per mile for a carmaker's fleet. The House action would place a limit of 0.25 gram per mile on all cars by 1996; the output of nitrogen oxide, another source of smog, would be required to fall from 1 gram per mile to 0.4 gram. Unless the Environmental Protection Agency ruled...
...strictest in the U.S. and will become even tighter in the 1990s, when they are to serve as models for the rest of the country. Such 1989 cars as the South Korean-built Pontiac LeMans and Japan's Nissan Maxima emit less than 0.2 gram of nitrogen oxide per mile. At the same time, Chrysler sells its California dealers a $100 pump that helps cars meet restrictions by recirculating exhaust through the engine and catalytic converter to reduce toxic emissions...
Gregg and his wife, Meg, said at a news conference they were in bed at about 6:30 A.M. when they heard a blast and a guard warned them by telephone that intruders had entered the compound, which is about one mile from the U.S. Embassy...
...near the Kent port of Deal in southeastern England housed young recruits, some only 16 years old, who were training for the famed Royal Marines marching band. Last week their music was silenced in a deafening explosion that leveled one of the barracks and rattled houses within a two- mile radius. The toll: ten dead, 22 injured. British Defense Secretary Tom King called the blast an "appalling outrage against young army bandsmen who work for charity and who have given great enjoyment to millions across the country...