Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years to buy them as condominiums--thus reducing the city's stock of affordable housing. Sponsors of 1-2-3 argue that the referendum would benefit the city by allowing more city residents to own their own homes, but opponents charge that such a change would deal a death-blow to the rent-control system...
...diplomatic source told The Associated Press the United Nations received unconfirmed reports that Higgins was shot to death after the shooting down of the Iranian airbus by the U.S.S. Vincennes on July 3, 1988. At the time, no specific date for the death was given...
...reasons but simply by price tag." Declares Ohio Congressman John Kasich: "Nobody's pushed harder for the ((Secretary of Defense Dick)) Cheney / defense budget than I, but America cannot afford the B-2." To South Carolina Republican Arthur Ravenel Jr., cancellation of the B-2 is inevitable, "just like death and taxes...
Fate and circumstance combine to limit the death toll in what is nevertheless the tenth worst air crash in U.S. history. -- On the diplomatic front: a senior U.S. foreign service officer is suspected of espionage, and George Bush is accused of giving embassy jobs to wealthy but unqualified supporters. -- The Stealth bomber takes to the skies -- but Congress may shoot it down...
...city of Rangoon narrowly avoided another bloodbath last week when club- wielding government troops waded into 1,000 protesters on Martyrs Day, which marked the 42nd anniversary of the death of independence hero Aung San. The government reported that 44 people had been "detained...