Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ford was serious about using the family name for worthy causes. After the Detroit race riots in 1967 left 43 dead, Ford headed an effort to find jobs for blacks. He lent his name and money to the building of Detroit's Renaissance Center, a financial flop that lost an estimated $140 million in its first four years and had to be refinanced...
...catastrophe that carried a Richter punch later estimated at 8.3. Still, last week's temblor was the most potent in Southern California since 1971, when the San Fernando Valley rumbled under a 6.6 assault and 64 people died. Last week's quake left more than 100 injured and six dead, including an electrical repairman buried in an underground tunnel, a college student struck by falling concrete in a campus garage, and three people who died of heart attacks brought on by the shock...
Islamabad had no comment about the recent battle until the Indian announcement. Then Rana Naeem Mahmood, Pakistan's Minister of State for Defense, told Parliament that "in consequence of aggressive measures by Indian troops in the Siachen area, serious clashes took place." Indian figures for Pakistani dead were "highly exaggerated," he claimed. Indian and Pakistani officials said last week that a cease-fire seems to be holding. But with winter coming, that may be more a matter of necessity than goodwill...
...understandable enough for a man who spent much of his professional life covering that cataclysm and its consequences. Yet there is something relentlessly newspaperish about the implication that the great events of history mostly involve war and politics. World War II inflicted an awful carnage -- at least 35 million dead -- but far more people than that have been kept alive by the invention of penicillin and other antibiotics, not to mention the pesticides that eradicated many epidemic diseases, a scientific revolution that helped double the world's population just since...
...stickler for detail, TransDesigns Decorator Joan Caruso-Zinicola packs her van with shadow boxes, even containing seashells to complete the "traditional look," and raku pottery to be mounted on pedestals to "bring dead corners to life." Like most of her colleagues, she recommends local craftsmen and contractors and tries to keep them on schedule...