Word: exits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soviet restrictions on emigration have easedsomewhat in recent months but it is estimated thatsome 40,000 people are trying unsuccessfully toleave the country. Gorbachev has said statesecurity is the only basis on which people arerefused exit visas...
Most of the panicked commuters clawed and stampeded their way to safety. But 30 people perished in the blaze, almost all of them on the circular ticket concourse at the top of the escalator, most within yards of exit doors. Eighty more were injured, twelve critically, by the intense heat and smoke. The fire was by far the worst in the 124-year history of the London Underground. Until last week's disaster, in fact, only four passengers had died in subway blazes since World War II. But the solid reputation of the city's venerable "Tube" is now under...
...exit of Falwell plainly ends the initial era of the Religious Right and quickens speculation on its prospects in the next phase. Even as Pat Robertson escalates his evangelically inspired presidential bid, recent tidings seem to amount to a threnody of waning influence for the movement. Television ministries have had a particularly rocky time. The Contribute or Else I Die campaign of Oral Roberts disgusted many Americans as well as his own church, which ruled last month that Roberts' status is not, and never has been, that of a United Methodist clergyman. Above all, the horrendous PTL scandal has harmed...
...Franklin Resources in San Mateo, Calif., redemptions in October reached $550 million, a level more than three times as high as in a typical month. "It was a stampede," said Monte Gordon, director of research at the Dreyfus group of mutual funds. "Everybody tried to run out the exit door at the same time...
...rustles mysteriously through what seems to be a thick book. Then he appears to scribble furiously for a minute or two. After a final scrutiny of the traveler's face, the passport is pushed back. "Welcome to Nicaragua," says the officer, hitting a switch that opens the electronically operated exit doors. If the Sandinistas do not admit to being Communists or Marxists, they certainly understand the etiquette...