Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shortly after dawn, five helicopter gunships took off from the Palanquero military air base southeast of Medellin. Thirty minutes later, skimming over the treetops of the Colombian jungle, the clattering swarm descended on a ranch outside the Magdalena River town of Puerto Triunfo. Thirty members of Colombia's elite National Police antinarcotics unit jumped from the copters and began searching the grounds. Their eventual payoff: discovery of three complexes containing eight cocaine laboratories. After the raiders methodically burned chemical dumps and bunkhouses, a five-man explosives team blew up brick buildings, generators and 15,000-gal. chemical holding tanks...
...what's the solution? You need look no further than the history of our own University in 1969 for a model on which to base your protest strategy. The last time the administration tried to trample on student rights, undergraduates didn't timidly sign petitions or run crying to the Undergraduate Council...
...being pounded into unconsciousness, Lisa was left lying on a bathroom floor in the couple's Greenwich Village apartment for some twelve hours when Steinberg went out to dinner. Nussbaum testified that after his return, when she told him the girl could not be revived, he insisted they free-base cocaine before calling for help...
When the Yugo subcompact was introduced into the U.S. four years ago, its promoters billed it as the next Volkswagen Beetle. But last week Global Motors, importer of the Yugoslav-made car, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The car's initial allure was its low base price, which started at $3,990 in 1985 and is now $4,349. But the car ran into competition from South Korea's Hyundai Excel, which began selling...
...exactly? Baker's friends have considered probably every route. Most dismiss a return to Texas and another run for elective office. (Baker lost a 1978 race for Texas attorney general.) "That might get him the political base he needs," says Baker's son Jamie. "But it's risky. There's no reason he couldn't leave State near the end of Bush's tenure and work it from the outside...