Word: arlington
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...Arlington County Fire Department originally estimated that as many as 800 people may have died in the attack on the Pentagon, with virtually no hope of finding survivors. But now some goverment officials said the death toll could end up being significantly lower, ranging closer to 150 fatalities...
...absence. "Let's increase security outside the building," Armitage said calmly, seeming unperturbed. Another aide piped up. "We probably need to think about getting the hell out of here," he said. Armitage decided to evacuate, and an alternate command center was set up at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Va. Senior State Department aides jumped in staff cars to race to Arlington but immediately ran into clogged traffic in Washington...
...streets in Washington were gridlocked with people trying to get out. In a place that doesn't tend to carpool, co-workers had stuffed themselves into available vehicles. Both the 14th Street Bridge and Arlington Memorial Bridge, leading to Virginia and past the Pentagon, had been closed, as were the airports and Union Station. On the corner of Constitution Avenue and 14th Street, day-care workers from the Ronald Reagan Building clutched frightened toddlers into a tight bunch. Hysteria was gripping the city: senior generals at the Pentagon phoned children and other relatives, warning them not to drink tap water...
...beyond the pale, Fox has vowed that the 1938 nationalization of Mexican oil resources is "untouchable." "If Fox screws up royally, that's when the nationalism will come in," says Manuel Garcia y Griego, director of the Center for Mexican-American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. "It's like anti-immigrant feeling in the U.S.--it's just waiting in the wings. All you have to have is unemployment going up." Though Mexican labor statistics are murky, Fox admits that the country lost 200,000 jobs this year when it should have been creating 1.5 million...
...need for defense and offense. Walking upright presented early man with a larger and fiercer profile to his enemies. It also freed his hands to use weapons and better attack his foes. This alteration provided humans with additional time to think, create and develop. BARRY STEVENS Arlington, Texas...