Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...located the documents in the compaction room amid bundles of wastepaper mingled with noxious cigarette butts and cardboard coffee cups. If the checks had not been found, Continental would have faced the laborious job of straightening out a $227 million imbalance in its books. Last week, however, when the Aug. 17 mishap came to light, bank officials maintained virtuously that such an outcome was impossible. Even though the bank's books are balanced daily, they said, paper trash is kept on hand for several days -- just in case something important gets thrown out by mistake. Declared Eugene Croisant, a Continental...
More miraculous, so did a handful of villagers who haltingly recounted the tale of the poisonous cloud. Sometime between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Aug. 21, families were finishing their evening meal and settling down for the night when the volcanic lake bed erupted. Some villagers remembered hearing a distant sound. Then a strange odor permeated their huts. "It was like burned gunpowder," suggested one survivor. Another likened it to "eggs, bad eggs." When villagers began to feel dizzy, panic set in. People who were not killed immediately fled into the dirt streets. Many were later found...
...American history. Some 2,000 descendants of the Somerset slaves are expected to converge from all over the nation at the ancestral home most had never seen or even heard of until Redford contacted them. They are, says Redford, "people who have never truly been home before." The Aug. 30 gathering comes exactly two centuries after 80 slaves arrived from Africa aboard the brig Camden to help carve from the swamp a plantation where as many as 328 slaves would eventually labor...
...saying it was "purely political." But Continental Airlines used the federal report to launch its own no-smoking program, announcing that smokers who agree to keep their pack in their pocket would qualify for a 10% discount on their next flight. The 30- day experimental program was to begin Aug...
...century," as some observers dubbed the House-Senate meeting to resolve differences between the two bills, seem like the prelude to a foregone conclusion. There was even a deadline of sorts. The 22 conferees began their meetings in July under an agreement that they would try to finish by Aug. 15. They were afraid that if they did not have a deal by then, the whole bill would be picked apart by a swarm of lobbyists who would descend on Senators and Representatives back home during the three-week recess...