Word: gets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took a while for the Glasers to mount their onslaught on Square shoppers. After signing a lease in summer 1988, the owners encountered the red tape of Cambridge's historical commission. Because the store's location has historical status, it took a while to get building permits for the 7000-square foot renovations...
SHUTTLE buses operate on a fixed route and a fixed schedule. That means that a person trying to get home late at night has to wait outside for the bus. And a single person waiting on a street corner at four in the morning is a tempting target for would-be criminals...
...death of foreign leaders, though not intended, is likely. CIA director Webster last week proposed an effort to define the policy more clearly so that CIA officers "can go right up to the edge of that authority and not worry if they or their agency is going to get in trouble." The Justice Department has been asked to prepare a draft for changes...
Such coordination is sorely needed because Wall Street has become an ever more volatile place. Deregulation and the growth of computerized trading have left the stock market vulnerable to violent swings. "People have to get used to the idea that at certain points 5% to 10% declines are possible in today's highly automated markets," says John Phelan, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. Yet even some Wall Street insiders have had misgivings. Warns Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Prudential-Bache Securities: "A 7% drop in the Dow Jones index is destabilizing to individual investors, and we need them...
...struggle in all its aspects" should continue. That remains the consensus among black leaders, who say that protests, boycotts and strikes will go on -- with the full blessing of Nelson Mandela -- and the A.N.C. will work to rebuild its organization inside South Africa. If De Klerk is to get negotiations on track, he will have to offer more concessions to prove that reconciliation rather than image building is his goal...