Word: 1980s
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...didn't want to talk about why he lost, but those who know him say he blames the media--particularly the Atlanta Journal-Constitution--for their extensive coverage of his business ties to Abramoff, his friend from their days running the College Republicans in the early 1980s. For a high-profile religious conservative like Reed, the stories of being paid millions by one Indian tribe to run a religious-based antigambling campaign to prevent another tribe from opening a rival casino made him look like something worse than a criminal--a hypocrite. He had once called gambling a "cancer...
...Every time Bateman directs an inaudible threat towards someone. Little known fact: in addition to the Drug War and the AIDS epidemic, 1980s America faced a rash of severe hearing loss...
...residents of Tyre are taking any chances. They are heeding the Israeli military warnings, which were relayed via the Voice of the South radio station, once run by Israel's Lebanese militia allies in the 1980s and 1990s before it went off the air in 2000; Israel appears to have resurrected the station specifically for the current military campaign. The Israelis also are using more unorthodox methods of conveying their warning - SMS text messages and recorded voice messages to local officials. Hassan Dbouk, who works with Tyre's municipality, says he received an early morning phone call on his landline...
...reporters. Chicago through and through, Burge, now 58, is the son of a phone company worker and fashion journalist who joined the Army, served in Vietnam and then fell in love with policing. From beat cop in 1970 to commander of South Side Chicago's detectives in the early 1980s, he earned commendations like snacks. He was a cop?s cop, a reporter?s cop and a city's hero...
...tell the difference between the old war damage and the new. Beirut is ramshackle and delightfully dilapidated in some parts - mostly the poor Shi'a parts, which are also the main target areas. Sometimes you realize that a balcony that appears freshly shorn off actually collapsed in the 1980s...