Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BUFFALO, N.Y.--Rep. Jack Kemp started his campaign for president surrounded by his former Buffalo Bills pro football teammates and espousing familiar themes: full employment, reduced taxes and a strong defense...
...Republican lawmaker returned for a fund-raising dinner Monday in his congressional district outside Buffalo after announcing his candidacy earlier in the day in Washington, D.C., and making appearances in New Hampshire and Massachusetts...
About 25,000 vehicles cross the bridge in a typical 24-hour period of heavy traffic, a thruway official said. The thruway runs from the New York City area north to Albany, then west to the Buffalo area...
...credit-card business intensifies, many lenders are blatantly trying to lure customers from rivals. People's Bank of Connecticut, which charges an unusually low 11.5% interest on its MasterCard, will lend people the money they need to pay off other credit-card balances and switch to its card. Buffalo-based Empire of America bank now offers its customers a novel choice. They can pay 18% interest on purchases with a Visa Classic card and enjoy the traditional 30-day grace period, or they can pay just 13.7% on a Visa Lite and tote up interest from Day 1. Tastes great...
...glacial period, and in southern Africa the climate was cooler than it is today. Giraffes, hyenas and baboons abounded, along with now extinct giant horses and hartebeests and buffalo with 13-ft. horn spans. Neanderthal man had not yet emerged, but intelligent beings already roamed the savanna, upright creatures known today as archaic Homo sapiens, who could fashion crude axes, picks and cleavers out of stone. On a clear night 170,000 years ago, one of these ancestors of man may have looked up at a milky band of stars stretching across the sky, his eyes pausing briefly...