Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everybody expected a fast start out of the box," he said. "It's been difficult...
...outside: a white stucco duplex with a neatly trimmed lawn. Inside, a hallway leading to a bedroom had been walled off. Behind the barrier, a surveillance camera was trained on customers in the living room. The drug salesman, sitting in a kitchen equipped with three telephones and a box full of cash, remained unseen behind a fortified door but was able to monitor the outer room via closed-circuit TV. Buyers spoke to the seller through an intercom. Money and drugs were passed through a tiny opening in the wall...
...where "Fred Flintstone and George Jetson could meet over a cup of coffee." The descendants include Big Boy, Denny's and Sambo's. From 1950 to 1960, years of heedless American growth, cars multiplied and the great fast-food empires were born: McDonald's, Tastee Freez, Jack-in-the-Box, Burger King, Dunkin' Donuts, Mister Donut, Pizza Hut, Burger Chef. The architecture that resulted was a sort of Sunbelt peasant modernism, simple constructivist cartoons in steel and glass, designed to catch the attention at highway speeds. Usually, as Langdon says, it was a case of "form faking function." Cosmetic...
...cities of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana. The targets, according to a subsequent South African announcement, were operational bases and transit facilities of the exiled, outlawed African National Congress, which the government of State President P.W. Botha regards as a terrorist organization and black Africa considers a liberation movement (see box...
...initial explosion and flames that tore through the plant at 1:23 in the morning, and that seven other people had died after being treated for acute radiation sickness. By week's end the death toll had climbed to 13. In all, 299 victims were hospitalized (see box). The Soviet leader said that it was too early to determine the precise cause of the accident, which apparently began with a sudden power surge while the reactor was undergoing maintenance. That was followed by a devastating hydrogen blast and fire and the release of a cloud of radiation. While the mishap...