Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...downtown Kabul last week, a unit of Soviet and Afghan troops paraded through the streets towing a fresh supply of SS-1 Scud missiles. Elsewhere in Afghanistan the Soviets also deployed 30 MiG-27 attack aircraft and began striking at mujahedin fighters with Backfire bombers. Why the sudden buildup? In Moscow First Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh announced that the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan "is being suspended" because of new attacks by mujahedin rebels. Blaming the U.S. and Pakistan for continuing to give arms to the guerrillas, he hinted that the original pullout deadline...
...perseveres, pointing to another word. "Ubiquitous. Sometimes when you are walking around downtown L.A., the police are ubiquitous." Polite laughter. "Resonant. Many opera singers have a resonant quality to their voice." He breaks into a baritone, singing scales with a mock gravity...
...loud. Louder than a Metallica concert. The student section, conveniently located right behind the opposing team's net, has been known to cause some minor tremors in downtown Ithaca...
...just that the Patriots don't seem to havethat place in Bostonian hearts. Maybe it's becausethey're the youngest and least successful in afour-team town. Maybe it's because they play morethan an hour away from downtown. Or maybe it'sbecause Boston just isn't a football town...
...Administration will also recommend that the next Congress authorize funds for a second new embassy on the same downtown Moscow site. This time, to ensure a bug-free building, State Department officials plan to prefabricate most of it in the U.S., ship it to Moscow in pieces and have it assembled by imported American workers with security clearance. Estimated cost: $400 million. Ever optimistic, the Administration hopes to cut that total by dunning the Soviets for $29 million in damages for shoddy workmanship and delays on the initial project...