Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vaccinations are safe, effective and extremely well tolerated, said Ciuti. Because they are made of the dead flu virus, they cannot give people the disease, he said...
Undeniably, the author of this emotional and penetrating story is also the author of Creepshow. But King is aware of what he's done with his skill, of how he's occasionally bastardized it. As the 12-year-old narrator and his three friends approach the dead body, they begin to get scared: "We all began to nod. We knew about the night shift. I would have laughed then, though, if you had told me that one day not too many years from then I'd parlay all those childhood fears and night-sweats into about a million dollars...
...done by several hundred pounds of the mercury-based fungicide Tillex, which settled into the riverbed just downstream from the Sandoz warehouse. It will have to be dredged up as soon as possible, Swiss authorities said, or the current may wash it farther downstream. "The Rhine will be dead for years to come," said Professor Ragnar Kinzelbach of the Technical University in Darmstadt, West Germany. Although locks and floodgates were closed to protect many of the river's tributaries from the poisonous flow, other waterways appear threatened. Dutch officials say the Ijssel River, which branches off the Rhine in southeastern...
...part of Honduras that juts into Nicaragua's northern Jinotega province. According to Western intelligence officials in Central America, fighting raged for three days during the last week of October, involving roughly 500 Sandinista and 500 rebel soldiers. In the first significant battle since last March, dozens were left dead and at least 100 were wounded. There was also confirmation last week of two contra ambushes in central Nicaragua during the first week of November that killed ten people, including Alfonso Nunez Rodriguez, a prominent Sandinista peasant organizer...
Botha was in France to dedicate a museum to the South African dead in the two World Wars, but even those ceremonies were skipped by the French Secretary of State for Veterans. If French officialdom seemed intent on ignoring Botha, , others were not. In Paris, three bombs exploded at the headquarters of companies with links to South Africa. No one was hurt. The terrorist group Action Directe took responsibility for the blasts...