Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday night that the Uncertainty Principle hit Tai Babilonia, 19, and Randy Gardner, 21, the world champions in the graceful art of pairs figure skating. Not only were the Americans still getting better, still adding to their repertoire of lifts and leaps, but they would be competing against the Soviet Union's husband-and-wife team of Irina Rodnina, 30, and Alexander Zaitsev, 27, who had taken the Olympic gold medal in 1976 and who had won six world titles. Last year, when Randy and Tai won the world championship, the Soviets were not competing; Irina was having...
...Bokek near the southern shore of the Dead Sea. At the command of the Energy Minister, a switch was thrown and a battery of floodlights suddenly blazed in the darkness, casting an eerie bluish glow over the nearby hills. As onlookers cheered, one dazzled scientist exulted: "We have hit the skeptics pretty hard...
DIED. David Janssen, 48, craggily handsome actor who played tough, terse, but vulnerable heroes like the wrongly convicted doctor who pursued his wife's killer for four years in the ABC-TV hit series The Fugitive; of a heart attack; in Malibu, Calif...
That is precisely what ABC's Arledge has been promising many CBS and NBC journalists. He has lured 29 on-camera reporters and 20 producer-directors from the other networks. CBS is hardest hit, losing 17 to the Arledge recruiting drive, including Correspondents Hughes Rudd, John Laurence, Barry Serafin and Sylvia Chase, as well as off-camera stars like Richard Kaplan, a talented producer with the Cronkite team. Admits one CBS hand: "We're hemorrhaging...
Like a sharpshooter knocking off jumping rabbits in a carnival midway, the Department of Energy during the past two years has charged U.S. oil companies one by one with overcharging customers for gasoline, heating oil and other products. Last week the DOE hit its biggest target to date. Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, one of the nation's largest gasoline retailers under the trade name of Amoco, signed a sweeping $690 million consent decree settling all alleged sale-price violations since...