Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hathaway has watched this Bryant Pond disappear along with Long's Lumber Yard, where they planed on all four sides, true and square, and a cannery where a boy could pick up a damaged tin of creamed corn for a free lunch on his way to a day of fishing. After so much loss, why should a crank-telephone switchboard in the back room of his home lay claim to immortality...
...forces have denied Palestinians permission to return to the camps that were once their homes, though last week Jerusalem finally relented and agreed to let the U.N. bring in 11,000 tents for hous ing before the October rains begin. Ultimately, however, the Israelis would like the camps to disappear, and for the 150,000 to 200,000 Palestinians presently living in southern Lebanon to be resettled in other Arab countries or in other parts of Lebanon. Says a senior foreign ministry official in Jerusalem: "If we once more rebuild the squalid camps, they will become spawning grounds for terrorism...
...other major force in Polish life, has been reluctant to provoke the military government openly, fearing that such a move might lead to more stringent controls and possible "fraternal" assistance from the Soviet Union. Some church sources have conceded in private that Solidarity, as an organization, may have to disappear in order for its ideas to live on. Still, in the absence of any formal opposition to the regime, the church has tried to press the authorities for some form of national dialogue. Last week Archbishop Jozef...
...rivals equal-quality access to the local phone system. That particularly appealed to a competitor like MCI Communications Corp. Said a jubilant MCI Chairman William McGowan: "To use our alternative long-distance service now, the customer must have a push-button phone and dial 22 digits. Those requirements should disappear and make competition more real...
...asks, "What'll you have?" the options seldom if ever seem to include such familiar names as Rheingold, Knickerbocker, Hamm's and Falstaff. Thus as the industry grows more and more concentrated, with fewer companies ruling more of the market, bits of Americana itself will continue to disappear. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Stephen Koepp/New York and Paul A. Witteman/Milwaukee