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...range Boeings since the Airbus A310 was introduced. Among the reasons: Airbus is more fuel efficient than the 767 for trips under 500 miles and better suited to shorter European distances. Except for the planes that it sold to Eastern two years ago, Airbus has yet to crack the U.S. or Canadian market. The battleground is spreading to the Middle East and North Africa, but with an astonishing backlog of almost $20 billion in orders, Boeing is still way ahead...
Harvard occasionally numbers among Lesley's defenders. The University sold Lesley the four properties last month, in return for a crack at some property Lesley owned on Sacramento...
...other hand, the Crimson stars had an easy day. Murphy and McNulty each ran only once, and the crack relay quartets were dissembled in favor of a hodge-podge of lesser runners. Only Dixon, who won the 600 and the 1000 and ran in the mile relay, had a full day's work; and he was not pressed in either of his victories...
...steel shell of the vault was now so hot from the fires raging below that the tiles laid over it were beginning to crack and buckle. We were all drenched in sweat. We were breathing through wet paper towels, very slowly and shallowly, trying to save oxygen...
...beginning of the Islamic New Year, a mysterious band of Muslim fanatics seized the Sacred Mosque of Mecca, taking an unknown number of hostages. At week's end, the situation at the Sacred Mosque was unclear. Government officials in Riyadh said that Saudi armed forces, including the crack National Guard commanded by Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz, were in "complete control" of the mosque. Other sources, however, suggested that some of the invaders were holding...