Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Gregg had to leave the game, but, as she always does, returned shortly. Not to be left out of the action, Brown freshman Cheryl Stahl went after Gregg next, and as they lay on the ground side by side, commenced in kicking the Harvard striker's legs. Central Park was never like this...
Because the new Congess elected Tuesday would preside over a possible deadlock, analysts say a Carter-Mondale victory would not be guaranteed. Democrats now control both houses, but their rivals expect to gain ground on November 4. Even if the Democrats retain their majorities--as they probably will--the GOP could gain enough key House seats to deny them the 26 Democratic delegations Carter would need for a clear victory. All eyes would then shift to the other side of the Capitol, where regardless of a likely Republican net gain the Democrats will remain in power, and Mondale would have...
Banfield believes Carter "would be able to manipulate the advantages of the incumbency" to prevail in a House tussle, even if the Republicans do gain ground this week. But even if the struggle is protracted, Banfield says he "can't imagine a catastrophe that would leave us without a functioning political mechanism. If you call what we are doing now 'functioning,' we would carry...
...hand out leaflets warning that radiation on the site is still above average levels. A booklet adds that it is only one-fifth as great as the radiation received from a chest X ray. No eating, drinking or smoking is permitted within the ten-acre, fenced-in area around ground zero, lest radioactive materials be ingested. "What's a little radiation?" scoffs 14-year-old Lee Hutchinson, visiting Trinity for the second time. "It's bad at Three Mile Island because that's in the middle of civilization. But this is really in the middle of nothing...
...twisting slowly end over end. A woman floats by waving to you as she opens her parachute. You look up and all the passengers are opening parachutes. You look down and suddenly the earth seems very close. You don't have a parachute. You wait helplessly for the ground to swallow...