Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most visible social failure. The homeless are everywhere. Theirs, however, is an ad hoc, nook-and-cranny geography. Hunkered down near a fence between a San Francisco freeway overpass and a grammar school. Asleep in the back room of an unguarded Chicago mortuary. Squatting near by in the dark eighth floor of an abandoned rooming house. Scrunched, and occasionally killed, inside Anchorage garbage dumpsters...
After the Sunday naval strike, the Marines were ready for trouble, and it came that night. Shortly after dark, a Marine officer saw shells exploding around Lebanese Army positions in the nearby town of Khalde. The firefight picked up, and soon the Marines were being hit by the most intensive bombardment they had faced in Lebanon. One company reported it was being shelled by multiple-launched 107-mm or 122-mm rockets. Another said its command post was being hit by a 23-mm antiaircraft weapon only 817 yards away. Machine-gun and small-arms fire was fierce...
Employees at Empire, which manufactures microwave ovens that have caused consumers to glow in the dark, are sometimes all three. Viewers see Empire through the eyes of Ben Christian, the company's ethical but naive new vice president, who is portrayed by Dennis Dugan. In one episode Cromwell, played by Patrick Macnee, formerly of The Avengers, is enraged because the company is about to lose a contract to sell $350 mil lion worth of air conditioners to Kuwait...
...added that he did not know the cause of the outrage, which left House residents in the dark from...
Philip C. Haughey Jr. '84 and other A entry students resigned themselves to the dark and lit a fire, drinking wine and waiting until the power returned...