Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past 18 years, Communist guerrillas of the New People's Army have made Philippine soldiers and policemen their main targets. Last week they turned their guns on Manila's main foreign backer: the U.S. In one well-coordinated 15-minute burst of violence, pistol-wielding assassins killed two active-duty U.S. service members, a retired U.S. sergeant and a Filipino businessman. The attacks occurred within three miles of Clark Air Base, the largest overseas U.S. Air Force facility. All bore the signature of the N.P.A.'s sparrow-unit death squads, so called for their small size and great mobility. Persons...
Harvard closed the gap with 10 minutes remaining. McGill bobbled an up-and-under kick by Gibbs and Butcher burst through to snatch the ball from McGill, broke the tackles of four defenders, and scored the game's final points...
...events that led to the Crash of '29. Still, the 508-point drop in the Dow Jones industrials on Black Monday was such an unsettling event that a major examination was in order. Under Alexander's supervision, TIME directed its considerable resources at determining why the bubble burst, where the financial markets were headed, and what the implications of the crisis were for both the global economy and the wallets of individual consumers...
...abuses and the lack of protection, have begun to retaliate. In Tabar, a small village just outside Port-au-Prince, a group of townspeople captured ten men who had repeatedly robbed and attacked the locals. In the ensuing melee, three of those captured were killed. Last Sunday several men burst into the living quarters of a Dutch priest who had recently said a funeral Mass for a Tabar boy killed by the army. The robbers stole $3,000 from the church near Port-au-Prince and shot the priest twice. He survived...
...will be filled with rallies and speeches as he campaigns for a job that is assuredly his. Come Dec. 1, 1988, and inauguration day, however, the real challenge will begin: steering a course between populism and continued economic austerity. In the past, Mexican Presidents have taken office amid a burst of optimism and reform, but their accomplishments have usually fallen far short of their promises. If Salinas is as good a student as his academic resume suggests, he will have learned from the mistakes of his predecessors...