Word: chain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the real estate boom of the early 1980s, however, the condo developers and national chain stores have moved up from Harvard Square, slowly edging out the old way of life along Mass...
...commercials for Domino's Pizza, the chain's employees wage a never ending battle against the Noid, a gremlin who delays deliveries and carries a gun that can turn a pizza ice cold. Many viewers are amused by the Noid, Domino's says, but one of them took the advertising campaign personally. Last week Kenneth Noid, 22, walked into a Domino's Pizza shop in Chamblee, Ga., with a .357 Magnum revolver and took two employees hostage. When police arrived, he demanded $100,000 in cash, a getaway car and a copy of The Widow's Son, a 1985 novel...
...Noid got was the pizza he ordered. After a five-hour siege, the two employees slipped away and Noid gave himself up. According to police, Noid has "psychological problems" and believes that he has an "ongoing dispute with Tom Monaghan," the head of the Detroit-based Domino's chain...
Much would still remain to be done, notably resolving the dispute between Japan and the Soviet Union over several small islands in the Kurile chain, what the Japanese call the Northern Territories, which have been controlled by the U.S.S.R. since World War II. The Soviets should also open their far east much more fully to foreign trade and visitors, and operate their own Pacific fleet in a way that does not raise concern over Soviet objectives...
...tourists at ground level who poke their noses through the chain link fencing and peer past the scaffolding and sandbags are rewarded with a wholly different, riveting view of the famous piazza: underground. There, some 30 Italian archaeologists are digging through a cross section of history from the Bronze Age to medieval times. Exposed now is a Roman thermal bath with its frigidarium, or cold room, almost intact. And smack on top of that are the remnants of a tower dating from the 13th century era of the Ghibellines. With 86,000 sq. ft. of past at his feet, archaeologist...