Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days San Franciscans endured burst water mains, broken-down boilers, overflowing fountains, weed-choked lawns, garbage-strewn streets and a transit stoppage that halted their cable cars and buses. But last week some 3,900 city workers were finally back at work - and, though they had gone on strike for an extra $5.5 million, they had not won a penny. It was the most dramatic setback to date for the nation's powerful municipal unions, which have been demanding ever fatter wage boosts and thus helping to drive U.S. cities to the edge of bankruptcy. It was the citizenry...
...addition, many of the Radcliffe teams have done quite well before becoming involved with Harvard three years ago. The sailing team, for example, has been competing intercollegiately for the last thirteen years, during which time it was considered by Radcliffe to be a varsity sport. The team has gone to the sailing nationals for the last nine years and won four times while placing second or third four others. Although sailing is omitted from most lists of Radcliffe varsity sports, it should, in fact, be one of the few included. Along with the crew it is the only team...
...resident of Buia (pop. 8,000). "At first I thought it was a truck passing. But then the roof caved in on my mother. She died instantly." In neighboring Maiano (pop. 6,200), hit hardest by the earthquake, a trattoria collapsed on 40 customers dining inside. With power gone and no lights to work by, rescuers could do little more than pull blindly at the wreckage and listen to the screams and moans of the buried survivors...
...this time. Ken Russell should have got sick of being told he has gone too far. But on he goes, each new movie an exercise in further excess. Mahler -which appeared in England two years ago but is only now being released in the U.S.-is a discombobulated. flatulent film that bears only a glancing resemblance to the life of the post-Romantic composer...
...return of $1.5 million on a $16,500 investment. Meanwhile the 140 actors who have performed in the musical's eight roles have worn out some 420 costumes and 350 pairs of shoes. The Sullivan Street Playhouse, the show's home for all these years, has gone through two sets of seats and had to have the stage floor replaced three times...