Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...devour homes on the high ground, many valued at $200,000 or more. Baldwin Hills is an affluent, predominantly black neighborhood, sometimes called "the black Beverly Hills." Its houses are mainly sprawling stucco structures or split-level residences less than 35 years old. When the flames came, they fed voraciously off the wood-shingled, bone-dry roofs. Fireballs danced from rooftop to rooftop, driven by the winds and creating fire-storm drafts of their...
...Fed a steady diet of cops and robber and minor catastrophes, the public instead of edification during the news hour. Fed a healthier diet, low in drama and sensationalism, the average viewer could develop more refined taste...
...have tripped the explosion of a bomb in a bag unloaded from Canadian Pacific Flight 003. The blast killed two baggage handlers and injured four others at Tokyo's Narita International Airport just 53 minutes before the Air India plane crashed. Speculation that the two events were connected was fed by the timing, the fact that both flights had originated in Canada and suspicions that Sikh extremists might have engineered the incidents in order to strike out at the Indian government. But at week's end investigators were forced to agree with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's assessment that...
...ever been thus, for American cinema is truly an immigrant art form, made by immigrants for immigrants. From the beginning, each group of outsiders -- the ones behind the scenes and the ones gazing at the screen -- fed each other's good fortune. The audience made the filmmakers rich and famous; in return, movie people taught moviegoers, in the U.S. and all over the world, how to be Americans. When Film Maestro Federico Fellini was in New York City last month to receive tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, he recalled the spell American movies cast over his provincial...
...social worker in New Haven, Conn., is concerned about American treatment of the family. "I get disgusted when I see families separated. I blame the pressure of the dollar when both mother and father have to work and leave the kids in day care. In Mexico, babies are breast-fed with the milk of life. We were poor, but we were a family...