Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last view of the wreckage occurred before boarding a bus that took me to the volunteer fire department. By this time, it was dark. Flood lights surrounding the wreckage highlighted the dented metal and the blood that was everywhere...
...however, heavy rains and melting snow have turned the Rio Grande into a treacherous torrent with crests of 8 ft. in some normally shallow areas, slowing the flood of illegal immigrants. While U.S. Border Patrol officers in the El Paso sector normally nab some 600 river crossers a day in December, the daily arrest rate fell to 450 last month as fewer Mexicans ventured into the water...
...Africa may eventually run short of capital needed to buy out foreign firms. For that reason, British and U.S. companies have an incentive to leave while reasonable deals are still available. Warned an editorial in the Star, Johannesburg's largest daily newspaper: "The present disinvestment stream could become a flood, as foreign companies rush to cash in their chips while the going's good." Pretoria is hoping that Barclays' departure is not the first wave of the flood...
...bridge, built in 1866, is the fourth on the same site; the others were carried away by flood waters or smashed by ice floes. It is a long, gray shedlike structure, faintly medieval in appearance. The siding boards on the upstream side give evidence of the last heavy attack by ice, in 1977; the lower ends of the boards, which were broken off, have been replaced, and are lighter in color. The sky shows through the dozens of small holes in the roof...
...time in decades. In myriad shapes, sizes and colors, price tagged for all pocketbooks, in a glittering, growing, chromium-plated cavalcade seemingly without end, they continue to cruise into U.S. showrooms and, with slightly less frequency, back onto the streets of America. Under the impact of that four-wheeled flood, the $230 billion-a-year U.S. auto marketplace is being pushed, pulled and pummeled into new forms and shapes as one of the most diverse, sophisticated and, above all, brutally competitive selling arenas in the world...