Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general manager Art Berglund, who plotted out a 60-game, pre-Olympic tour for Team USA composed primarily of games versus college varsity squads...
...check the schedule of events as well as the times and scores recorded. Visa is the Games' official credit card; ^ American Express, MasterCard and Diners Club cards are thus not being accepted at any Olympic ticket office or venue (though they find ready acceptance at Calgary hotels and restaurants). General Motors has the right to supply all the vehicles used by Olympic officials, and because GM cars are getting preferential parking at Olympic venues, many auto-rental agencies rushed to replace the Fords they had been using with Chevrolets, Buicks and Oldsmobiles...
...General Manager: Barbara M. Mrkonic...
...February is usually carnival time in Petropolis, a mountain resort near Rio de Janeiro. But two weeks of storms washed away this year's pre-Lenten samba parade and general merrymaking. More than 20 in. of rain pelted Petropolis (pop. 250,000) and other cities, triggering floods and landslides that buried whole neighborhoods in tons of mud. By last week the devastation had left more than 200 people dead and 600 injured. But at least 17 people, some buried for 48 hours, were saved when civil defense teams pumped oxygen through tubes pushed into...
...million) has always been considered the most viable of the four "independent" black homelands | set up by South Africa. Bop, as the homeland is sensibly known, derives substantial revenues from platinum mining and the gambling resort of Sun City. But Bop -- and Pretoria's oft-denounced homeland policy in general -- suffered an embarrassing setback last week, when a coup briefly toppled the government...