Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Money is the prime mover for the NFL, where the astroturf is clearly only the second most important green element. The Super Bowl provides the league with ten million dollars from gate receipts and the sale of broadcast rights...
Although the timing inevitably linked his departure with the miniscandal, there were other reasons why Allen got the gate. He neither liked nor got along with Secretary of State Alexander Haig, and rarely hesitated to reveal that in public. He had not been effectively performing even his limited duties as a low-profile coordinator of foreign policy advice. He had been saddled with an impossible task, serving as a presidential adviser with no real clout and limited access to Reagan. With the job about to be redefined and strengthened, he simply did not have the personality or stature to handle...
...destruction was almost as severe north of the city. Highway 101 was made impassable by mud and floodwater along several stretches. The highway's link to San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, was closed for only the third time since its opening in 1937, forcing thousands to take ferryboats. In Sausalito, a mud flow brought one hillside house slamming down onto two others, killing a woman. Two hundred yards away, Writer Brian Vander Horst watched. Says he: "It happened so fast that two rooms from the falling house were flashing with lights as they came down the hill...
...stretched to the limit. Said one Western diplomat, "There is not one unit or piece of equipment in reserve." Most soldiers are on 18-hr, shifts. The army is not being used to suppress strikes or break up demonstrations. A tank may be used to burst through a factory gate or fire a warning shot, but it is the militia (police) who are left to do the dirty work...
Reds. Could have been "Warren's Gate." Instead, Writer-Director-Producer-Star Beatty fashioned a biography of Radical Journalist John Reed into a love story that evokes laughter, tears, thoughtfulness, astonishment...