Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legislative majority, and a larger electoral majority, continue to back rent and condominium controls. Without strict guidelines, they reason, Cambridge--a city where dozens of people vie for every available housing opening--would be overrun by young professionals. Studies predict neighborhoods would be destroyed and the working class would disappear. But the other side argues that gentrification of the city would increase the tax base and not hurt the elderly or the poor but only "student transients...
Whatever preconceptions the American tourist had about Moscow began to disappear almost on arrival. I had been told there was no place in Moscow to sit. I was also told that the prostitutes chalk their prices on the soles of their shoes, so they could rub off the evidence by scuffling along if the police turned up. "Ten rubles and up," my seatmate on the plane had informed me. "They sit in the parks and lift their shoes to you as you pass...
...aware of such a country, my friend described it as an island republic in the Pacific composed almost entirely of bird droppings, which its small population exports as phosphates at enormous profit. "In fact," my friend said, "Nauru is literally chipping itself away and will, in time, disappear completely. In the meantime, you can either root for its Olympic team or, failing that, compete in its name...
...they all are-passive, oblivious to the time and space they occupy, psychically removed. In their minds many of them are, like himself, already in the plane or stepping out of it. As one of the guys says: "When you see yourself going through the door, all the hassles disappear...
...current theory holds that MS is caused by a slow-acting virus that lies latent in the body for years before its first symptoms appear. These may disappear for as long as 30 years and then flare up once again, or they can disappear forever after one bout...