Word: gone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embassy roof in Saigon, a televised vignette of ignominy that is still replayed in the U.S.'s memory. Now Viet Nam has suffered its own setback: after more than a decade of trying to defeat a rural insurgency in Cambodia, a Vietnamese expeditionary force has given up and gone home...
...storm-shattered survivors of Hurricane Hugo, the simplest necessities were sorely missed: thousands were still without water or electricity. Residents from St. Croix, V.I., to Charlotte, N.C., found their businesses blown away, their houses flattened, their jobs gone. Losses were running as high as $3 billion just in South Carolina, where 70,000 people remained homeless and 224,000 were out of work. The state's top industry, tourism, may take years to recover. Timber, its third-ranking income source, took a $1 billion blow, as more than a third of South Carolina's forests fell to Hugo's winds...
...heroine is a passionate, headstrong beauty from the South who struggles to save the family estate and falls for a dashing stranger . . . A Cliff's Notes summary of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind? Not quite. It is the plot of La Bicyclette Bleue (The Blue Bicycle), a 400-page 1981 best seller by French novelist Regine Deforges. This week Deforges and her publishing company, which she now owns, are fighting to save their own fortunes in Paris, where they are defendants in a plagiarism suit brought by Mitchell's heirs...
...pictures and the posters that last year decorated the windows of 113 Brattle St., were nowhere to be seen. "I'm sure they're safe," Joan Wallace-Benjamin reassured her son, as she explained why the familiar adornments were gone...
Thomas E. Vautin, administrative director of operations, said the trees are regularly treated and that several have cables reinforcing the joints formed by the branches. But he added that it is only a matter of time before the trees are gone...