Word: engulfs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being dragged in, and Costa Rica [where a second group of exiles is talking of infiltrating Nicaragua from the south] could follow. I feel the heat of war crossing our border too. If it does, it's goodbye to all of us." This fear that conflict may engulf the whole region might seem overblown, both because of the limited military capabilities of the contras and because Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto specifically disavows any current idea of attacking Honduras in retaliation for contra activities, but it is strongly felt nonetheless...
Gasoline price wars are often fought over a profitable intersection and sometimes engulf an entire city. Never before, however, has the entire U.S. been involved. With gasoline consumption declining, the battle has proved to be exceedingly costly to oil companies and retailers alike. According to Analyst Dan Lundberg, the average price per gallon fell an astonishing 150 between July 1982 and last February, from about $1.30 to about $1.15. Lundberg says only a nickel of the drop is attributable to a decline in the price of crude. The other 10? came out of the oil companies' profits and cost...
...strangely interrelated world of a firestorm, the terror or inexperience of one person often affects another. One resident who lived up the hill from us turned on all the faucets and hoses in his house, then filed with the fire still miles away. Although the firestorm did not engulf his home, a burning cinder carried on the wind came through an open window, and all the water in his basins did nothing. With no one there to extinguish the spark, his house was gutted. And his open faucets so dropped the water pressure that when Mr. Forest climbed...
...such horror was the Sept. 14 assassination of President-elect Bashir Gemayel, Amin's younger brother. That atrocity had threatened to engulf Lebanon in sectarian turmoil and gave Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon an excuse to send his troops into West Beirut. Late last week Gemayel's Phalangist Party announced the arrest of a man suspected of planting the deadly bomb in its East Beirut party headquarters. He was described only as someone in contact with "foreign quarters." There were no such leads, however, in the death last week of PL.O. Chief of Staff Saad Sayel, better known...
...main entrance to Harvard's labyrinthine network of steam tunnels, the myths seem credible enough. A discreet door at the corner of the Science Center belies the cavernous two-story room behind it: a blast of warm air and the loud rush of machinery engulf the visitor as the door swings shut on a familiar world that is light, breezy and boundless. Inside, the huge water tanks that dwarf green-uniformed workers and the computer control room could grace the set of any James Bond science fiction scenario...