Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grocery store that will close in 15 minutes for an hour-long lunch break, a saleslady tries to keep me from entering. But others push past her, so I join the rush. A refrigerated bin holds brown paper bags filled with ground meat, half a dozen scrawny chickens and four packages of beef -- fatty, mostly bone and covered in grimy cellophane -- priced at $1.60 per lb. I stand in line for 14 minutes and buy a 2-lb. package of beef. There had been some sugar that morning, an employee informs me, and there may be some in the afternoon...
...pilots made three more efforts to shake their pursuers. Each . time, observers in a Navy E-2C radar plane flying nearby heard the Libyan ground controller order the MiG pilots to jink into potential collision courses with the Tomcats. The MiGs normally carry radar-guided Apex as well as heat-seeking Aphid missiles. While the Aphid homes in on a jet's fiery exhaust, the Apex is effective when launched at a target's nose...
...took too long coming out of the huddle after the timeout, so the referee put the ball on the ground and started counting for a five-second violation. Afraid he was going to run out of time, Cornell guard Monte Boykin ran over and tried to inbound the ball quickly, but instead threw it wildly out of bounds...
After the plane hit the embankment at 8:30 (GMT), the tail section embedded in the ground and the fuselage broke away and was scattered over nearby fields, said Inspector Neville Cotterill of the police in the city of Leicester...
...economy does stagnate or lose ground this year or next, it might have a relatively hard time getting moving again because of the heavy baggage of debt. Corporate borrowing, including the junk bonds that are used for leveraged buyouts, has zoomed from $965 billion in 1982 to nearly $2 trillion last year. A study of 643 corporations by Washington's Brookings Institution concludes that in the next recession 1 out of 10 firms could run out of cash and be forced to file for bankruptcy protection...