Word: finaling
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Nearly five years after the event, the legal wrangling continues over - audiotapes of the space shuttle Challenger's final moments. Several news organizations (including TIME) sued NASA under the Freedom of Information Act to disclose certain aspects of its investigation into the accident. Most eventually withdrew their actions, but the New York Times has continued to petition for tapes to back up a NASA transcript of cabin conversation. In the official version, the final comment is pilot Michael Smith's "uh-oh," indicating he might have been aware of impending danger. A federal appeals court agreed with NASA that releasing...
Mindful that the failure could unleash a spiral of protectionism, delegates from the 107 participating nations consented to a cooling-off period. They will meet in Geneva early next year in a final push to salvage something from their tiring and often tempestuous talks...
...security and defense under Habre, Deby helped mastermind a series of lightning attacks that drove Gaddafi out of northern Chad in 1983 and again in 1987. But after Habre accused him of plotting a coup last year, Deby fled to the Sudan, where he began recruiting his army. A final three-week assault launched last month quickly overwhelmed forces loyal to Habre, who fled across the Chari River into Cameroon...
Kuwait could also acquiesce to a final fixing of the disputed Iraq-Kuwait border that would put its two-mile-long share of Rumaila squarely on Iraqi turf. Alternatively, Kuwait could agree to turn its proceeds from Rumaila over to Baghdad. Though the field is extraordinarily bountiful, its loss would not seriously dent Kuwait's oil riches. Prior to the invasion, Kuwait was extracting some 10,000 bbl. a day from Rumaila, just 0.5% of its total production of 2 million...
...documentary re-creates the sad final chapter of Monroe's career: her work on Something's Got to Give, the 20th Century Fox film left uncompleted when she died in August 1962. The hourlong special (Thursday, Dec. 13, 9 p.m. EST, the Fox network) unveils raw footage that had been thought lost until it was discovered in a warehouse on the Fox lot in 1982. Written and narrated with nicely understated affection by producer Henry Schipper, the documentary gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse of a Hollywood star -- and a Hollywood studio -- in extremis...