Word: digging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specific example, Estrada said that after a 1986 earthquake, 2000 families were left homeless and forced to dig holes in the ground for water and to draw electricity from overhanging wires...
While in Europe, Joslin worked with the British School of Archaeology on a dig in Crete and tracked turtles and monk seals in Scala, Greece. She also took some classes at L'Institut Cordon Bleu in Paris. Her culinary repertoire--heavily influenced by her travels through Greece and the Soviet Union--includes moussaka, chicken Kiev and borscht...
...just veg out, watch TV and keep an eye on those . . . well, darned odd neighbors who recently moved next door. These people talk funny; they don't socialize; they probably smell bad. So Ray and his friends will just, oh, break into the new family's house, dig up the backyard, wreck the basement and leave the place in cinders. They'll destroy the neighborhood in order to save...
...find jobs and provoking discrimination against job seekers who merely look like foreigners. But the law has not significantly reduced unauthorized immigration. The flow from the South continues at such a pace that the INS is embarking on what literally amounts to a last-ditch tactic: it will soon dig a 5-ft.-deep, 4-mile-long trench along the Mexican border near San Diego, in part to prevent fast-moving cars packed with illegal immigrants from racing across the boundary...
...electronic sensors. Now it is making a last-ditch effort -- literally. For one thing, the Immigration and Naturalization Service will expand its force of border patrolmen by a third, to 4,300, by year's end. On top of that, the INS announced last week that it plans to dig a $2 million ditch along a four-mile stretch of border near San Diego, where some 300,000 illegal aliens were apprehended last year. INS officials maintain that the ditch, 5 ft. deep and 14 ft. wide, will frustrate high-speed car dashes across the border, which now average...