Word: busting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bust came only three days before Barry had planned to announce his candidacy for an unprecedented fourth term. At about 8 p.m. on Jan. 18, shortly after he picked the winners in a homestead auction, Barry waltzed into Room 727 of the Vista International Hotel, just six blocks from the White House. It is also only two blocks from another Washington hotel, where 13 months ago police mysteriously aborted a planned arrest of Charles Lewis, a suspected drug dealer, when they learned that Barry was in his room...
...mayor. Jackson has again and again vowed he will not challenge Barry, an old friend who supported Jackson's two runs for the presidency. But if Barry drops out of the race, the pressure on Jackson to seek the mayoralty could be irresistible. As a result of Barry's bust, Jackson could finally win an important elected office in Washington -- to the District Building instead of the White House...
...slaves, while in the background more blacks celebrate a liberty pole. McElroy complains that the artist "avoids presenting images that describe individual black people": none of the black figures is a portrait. But so what? There is no individual white person in the painting either, except for a bronze bust of the abolitionist Henry Thornton; the goddess Liberty, far from being "a white noblewoman," is a standard allegorical figure...
...evening, and together we walk toward the border, passing by the embassy of the U.S.S.R., a huge imperial palace with a bust of Lenin bathed in subdued light...
...boom-and-bust cycles are sharply affecting U.S. housing prices, which reflect regional economic health. In Houston, gone are the bad-old-days of the mid-1980s when U-Haul trucks streamed out of town as unemployment rose above 12%. A combination of stable oil prices and the arrival of new businesses has sparked a rebound in Houston home values. At the same time, Northeast housing prices are sinking and the explosive growth of California home prices has begun to cool...