Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shattered Afghanistan, the outlook ahead is far grimmer: more war, more bloodshed, more despair. With 1 million dead, 2 million uprooted from their homes and another 5 million claiming temporary asylum in neighboring countries, Afghanistan is bracing for a duel to the death between Najibullah's shaky regime and the U.S.-backed mujahedin rebels. No one knows whether the Soviets will mount cross-border air raids to thwart the rebels' designs, or if Washington intends to keep open its not-so-covert arms pipeline through Pakistan to the rebels. But even if the superpowers bow out entirely, both sides...
...videotape a hunt during which 13 hunters slaughtered 204 birds (139 over the limit for that group). When a guide yelled to spook hundreds of geese clumped together in a pond, hunters fired blindly into the rising cloud of birds. After the fusillade, the water was littered with dead and wounded snow geese...
...were dead the first period," White said. "They had a really big crowd that got really into the game. They said some really rude things...
Tommorrow night Cookin' presents a dance concert with Dead Weight Loss. A student band, Dead Weight Loss plays cover hits from REM, the Police and David Bowie. Cover charge is $2 for non-members, $1 for members...
...There is a flatter market," he says, "but it is not dead at all." The market perks up in late spring or early summer because Cambridge operates on an academic year, he adds...