Word: augustness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earth shakes and rolls under my feet," shrugs novelist Wallace Stegner, a 40-year resident of Los Altos Hills. "It's never particularly alarmed me." Brokers insist that San Francisco's booming real estate market has not subsided. "Obviously the quake was a drawback," concedes Katherine August of First Republic Bancorp, which specializes in loans for luxury homes. "But I don't think it will have a lasting effect on the market. We closed one deal the day after the quake." Says pollster Mervin Field: "Sure it shook people up. But look at the World Series game that was interrupted...
Drug traffickers have killed three federal judges in three months, one just befoer President Virgilio Barco declared war on the cocaine cartels in August. They have shown no sign of easing a terror campaign aimed at forcing the government to end extraditions to the United States...
...claimed responsibility, but security forces assume the scores of explosions that began in August are the work of the drug gangs. The 186 bombings reported have killed 29 people and wounded at least...
Lately, however, Thornburgh has been keeping a tight-lipped ship at the Justice Department. In August, Thornburgh threatened to prosecute employees who leak information to the press. The penalty would be up to 10 years in jail...
Frank has admitted that he paid Gobie $80 in 1985 for sex and subsequently hired Gobie with his own personal funds to serve as a housekeeper and driver from July 1985 through August...