Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...false-bottom pickup trucks. On this particular Sunday night, agents working the 3 p.m.-to-11 p.m. shift rounded up 155 aliens and took them to a detention center. INS guards then put the pollos aboard buses, drove them to a border crossing and herded them through a wire gate back into Mexico. Nearly all would try to slip across the border again, many only hours later the same night. They would keep coming until they eventually escaped to pursue the irresistible lure of jobs that are unavailable in Mexico. Says Alan Eliason, chief of border patrols in that section...
Only about 500 supporters answered Scargill's plea for an even bigger turnout the following day. Then Scargill was arrested for obstruction at Orgreave's main gate. He was quickly released on bail, but the reaction was nonetheless swift and brutal. Within hours, more than 3,000 demonstrators had gathered, and police charges were meeting stiffer resistance. Lengths of wire were strung across the road at the height of a horse's fetlock and a rider's neck. Telephone poles were ripped down and used as battering rams against police lines. The authorities and some miners...
...rubbing, it seems, has its purpose, and one can get considerable relief by massaging or patting a sore area, just as one can relieve itching by scratching or slapping. In 1965 two researchers, Patrick Wall and Ronald Melzack, devised a brilliant theory to explain this effect: the gate-control theory of pain. According to them, only a limited amount...
Within the Yard, the Class of '84 saw a Henry Moore statue placed in front of Lamont, land a designer guardhouse by Johnston Gate. Sever Hall got a facelift, and lost the blackboard with "Do Problem 2A Only" mysteriously painted...
...dispute was finally resolved with the conclusion of the Tokyo round of trade negotiations. The EC conceded three minor points. First, they agreed to lower levies on turkey drumsticks, breasts, and thighs by using new coefficients for calculating gate prices. Second, they agreed to keep seasoned, uncooked turkey at the bound rate of 17%. Finally, the Community decided to reduce turkey liver levies from 14% ad valorem...