Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choose last week from Soviet items that included watches, sunglasses and Red Star-emblazoned sweat shirts. The department store company is now negotiating to open one or two small Bloomingdale's shops in Moscow next spring. Not to be outdone, Nathan's Famous, a New York-based fast-food chain, last week shipped a 40-ft. mobile restaurant to Moscow, where it will open Sept. 25 in Red Square...
Vabadus! Vabadus! Vabadus! With interlocking hands held high, Estonians joined together in lines four and six deep in Tallinn to chant a single word: "Freedom!" The invocation was echoed last week all along a human chain, formed by an estimated 2 million people, that stretched from the Estonian capital of Tallinn across Latvia and into neighboring Lithuania to end at Gediminas Tower in Vilnius, some 400 miles from the starting point...
...venerable U.S. hotel chain known as "the nation's innkeeper," whose green-and-yellow signs are familiar landmarks on American highways, will soon take on a British accent. Last week Memphis-based Holiday Corp. said that it will sell its North American chain of more than 1,400 Holiday Inns for $2.2 billion to British pub-and-brewery giant Bass PLC. The sale completes a global acquisition for the London-based company, which last year bought the rights to Holiday Inn franchises outside North America...
...users. Such an emphasis on curtailing the U.S. appetite for cocaine and other drugs is fine by the Colombians. As President Barco told TIME, "Every time a North American youngster pays for his vice in the streets of New York, Miami or Chicago, he becomes a link in the chain of crime, terror and violence which has caused us so much damage and pain. The best help the U.S. could give for the tranquillity and the defense of human rights of Colombians would be attacking face to face the consumption of drugs in that country...
Hitler decided to rethink the whole strategy. The French defense was based on the "Maginot Line," a chain of fortifications that stretched 200 miles along the frontier from Switzerland north as far as Luxembourg. Built at a cost of $200 million (a substantial sum at a time when a workman earned about $3 a day), the Maginot Line was considered invulnerable; its strongest outposts bristled with antitank guns, machine guns and barbed wire, and boasted concrete walls 10 ft. thick as well as supply depots 100 ft. underground. To the north of the Ardennes Forest, which was only lightly fortified...