Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trowbridge assault and its aftermath mobilized Harvard's tenants in the Craigie Arms, who began to suspect that the University had little intention to rent them their apartments over the long term. The building's residents discovered several apartments stripped of appliances and fixtures. Even toilets were missing. Heaps of garbage accumulated in certain units which the University purposefully kept vacant in a city with fewer than three percent of its rental apartments vacant...
...aftermath, Yasser Arafat said the U.S. was guilty of "cowboy logic." It seemed to Americans an oddly flat and barbless phrase, something like the boiler-plate invective ("capitalist roaders," "unreliable elements") for which Communist regimes have a dreary genius. Terrorism is a haunted house, theater in the shadows. It needs its ugly special effects. Terror depends, so to speak, upon absolute artistic control. But suddenly in the Achille Lauro case, the house lights came up, and Arafat found himself blinking uncomfortably at the audience. No wonder his rhetoric sounded lame...
Reagan brooded about it as he hurried through his morning briefing on the aftermath of the hijacking of the Achille Lauro. Although U.S. intelligence had pinpointed the terrorists in Egypt, and a scheme was being hatched to try and capture them if they fled, they were still out of reach...
...that furious and frantic preparation, from Edisto, S.C., to Eastport, Me., turned out to be a storm before a comparative lull. After G hour had come and gone, first on the barrier islands off North Carolina and last in upper New England, all of what the newspaper people call aftermath reports had a wonderful quality about them. They all more or less said whew! To be sure, Gloria's pummeling, up-the-coastline meander left a wake of damage and sorrow. Seven deaths could be traced to the storm. At least half a million people were forced to flee exposed...
...workers continue to repair damage throughout the campus in the aftermath of Hurricane Gloria, Harvard officials have estimated the overall cost of the storm to be between...