Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Irvine's ordinance is a small but significant step. Of the city's 5,000 businesses, about 500 electronics, insulation and fast-food packaging companies will be affected by the new rules. They produce more than 700,000 lbs. of ozone-depleting compounds annually -- one five-thousandth of the entire amount of such chemicals used worldwide every year...
...victim was Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, a rising actress who co-starred in the CBS series My Sister Sam and is featured in the current movie Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills. Arrested for her murder in Tucson the next day was Robert John Bardo, 19, a former fast-food restaurant worker. Authorities describe him as "an obsessive fan of Miss Schaeffer...
...auto-parts salesman-farmer and an elementary school teacher in Linden, Texas ("Drive 20 miles to The Crossroads or, in the other direction, to Uncertain") -- Henley had a bedrock upbringing that permitted his musical excursions but gave him something to kick out against. When success with the Eagles hit fast and hard, he lived his share of the Los Angeles high life and paid a big price. In 1980 he found himself pickled in the press when he was given two years' probation for drug possession and fined for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. "I thought...
...expansion will falter, most economists believe a modest slowdown is necessary to suppress inflation, which had grown particularly stubborn in the past two years. Consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 5.9% during the first half of 1989, up from 4.1% last year. "The economy was running too fast for its own good," says Francis Schott, chief economist for Equitable Life Assurance. "It was working itself up to an inflationary frenzy...
...their conviction that Communism was a botch but also their uncertainty about how to untangle their political and economic messes. "We are where you were in 1776," Hungary's party president, Rezso Nyers, told Bush. "We need a currency that is convertible. The question is, Can we get it fast enough to keep things moving? We know that reform means instability in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Poland and Hungary. At the same time, we know we need foreign capital. Most basic is, How do we reform the thinking of our people who for the past 40 years have not been...