Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justice Department has joined a suit by a group of ten white policemen and firemen seeking to overturn the settlement. The plaintiffs claim they have been passed over so that less qualified blacks and women can fill numerical quotas. The city, they charge, has engaged in "illegal and unconstitutional discrimination against whites and males...
...great white staircase, and the Olympic wok ignited instantly with a roar. But the highlight for some was the final duty of Lake Placid, the hosts of 1980, represented by Mayor Robert Peacock and the Norwood, N.Y., fire-department band. Appearing incomplete without a Dalmatian trotting alongside, the firemen oom-pah-pahed along the Bosnian Main Street, performing When the Saints Go Marching In, America the Beautiful and Baby Face...
...street, dead and injured shoppers lay crumpled beside torn bags spilling with holiday purchases. As firemen and ambulances sped to the scene, police closed off the area by stringing white plastic tape from lampposts. Across the side street where the blast occurred, Munna Malik, 33, had been serving customers in a clothing store near by when the explosion blew in the windows of his shop. He escaped through a rear fire exit and returned to the street, where he found three bodies and a dead dog beside the flaming remains of a car. Said Malik: "Only the legs...
Monday, November 27: At 4:30 pm fire department units, Harvard police and university engineers responded to a fire alarm in Winthrop House. The fire, caused by a pan of burning meat, was quickly extinguished. Firemen and police together aired the building of thick smoke that had accumulated...
...morning blizzard hid all the main entrances to the parliamentary and government buildings. When legislators showed up for work, most were not amused. Neither was The Hague's police department, which ordered the local fire brigade to clean up the mess. Within hours, after The Hague's firemen had attacked the foamy mountains with water hoses, the square was again clear. Other wildcat job actions and work slowdowns to protest the pay cuts continued, including a week-old nationwide mail strike that has left post offices with tons of undelivered letters piled almost as high as the foam...