Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kilometer walkathon was the final event of National End Handgun Violence Week in the Boston area. The week started with a press conference Monday and continued with sales of anti-handgun buttons, bumper stickers and t-shirts throughout the week...
...Arish is the turnoff to Yamit. A long line of cars, full of sightseeing Israelis, is halted by a roadside stand where Israeli youngsters are handing out leaflets and soliciting signatures for a petition supporting a group called the Movement to Halt the Withdrawal. Afterward the youngsters paste bumper stickers on the cars. The slogan: DON'T UPROOT A TREE...
...retaliation, South Africa has terminated its preferential trade agreement with Zimbabwe, withdrawn its loan of 24 locomotives and expelled thousands of Zimbabwean workers employed in South Africa. The loss of the locomotives was a particularly severe blow: Zimbabwe's transportation system, staggering under the weight of a bumper maize harvest, will be able to get only a fraction of the crops to ports in South Africa without the engines. Says a U.S. diplomat in Salisbury: "I used to think that South Africa believed that it was in its best interests to have a stable Zimbabwe. Now I think Pretoria...
...former heroin addict gazes out the window of a New York City drug rehabilitation center. "Over there, the weather has been good. That is greatly appreciated on these streets." Sunny skies have made for bumper poppy crops in Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan over the last three years. The increasing availability of this so-called Golden Crescent heroin has spurred a marked rise in the use of this and other drugs in the united States. Not associated with a general ethos of disillusion or uncertainty, as was the drug movement of the late '60s and early '70s, today's crescendo...
Miami's 500,000 earlier Cuban immigrants, most of whom are now well assimilated, are growing increasingly hostile to the new arrivals. The term Marielito itself has become a fighting word in "Little Havana," the teeming, prosperous Cuban community in Miami; there are bumper stickers proclaiming NO ME DIGAS MARIELITO (Don't Call Me a Marielito). Says Bernardo Benes, a Cuban-émgré banker: "When I see Marielitos, I see numbers on them like the Jews in the concentration camps. There is a terrible lack of compassion for these people...