Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech to graduating high school seniors from the Chattanooga, Tenn., area said "this tragedy must never happen again," and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger acknowledged that "we don't know why" the USS Stark did not return fire on the Iraqi warplane that attacked it in the Persian Gulf...
Last Wednesday 150 FDIC liquidators began gathering in Houston. To avoid | detection that could lead to a run on the bank, they slipped into a downtown hotel under the cover identity of "Gulf Coast Tours." At 3:12 the next afternoon, minutes after the end of the banking day, they started streaming into the classy marble headquarters and three downtown branches. After assembling the headquarters employees in a basement lobby, Liquidation Specialist Timothy Putnam told them, "As of now, you're on the payroll of the FDIC. You'll get overtime tonight. Balance your windows. Finish your processing. Dinner...
Ancient mariners told of the Flying Dutchman, a phantom ship eternally doomed to sail the waters around the Cape of Good Hope, never making port. In the Gulf of Mexico last week the real-life vessel Mobro 4,000 seemed as damned as the Dutchman as it searched in vain for a friendly harbor. Southern ports had good reason for turning away the bereft barge: it was loaded with 3,168 tons of rancid, fly-infested trash from New York...
...health hazard. The bales were also beginning to ooze, and inspectors feared the scum would leak into the river. Governor Edwin Edwards half jokingly threatened to deploy National Guardsmen on the levees with orders to shoot if the barge tried to dock. As the vessel meandered about the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana Attorney General William Guste trashed federal authorities. "The Environmental Protection Agency was not watching it at all," he said. "If that barge tips or runs into a storm, the garbage could end up on our shores...
...Gulf Coast of Texas was never a hotbed of anarchist agitation. But that was before voters in the tiny resort town of Crystal Beach (est. pop. 1,200) decided that rather than fight city hall, they ought to get rid of it. And so they did, voting 314 to 245 earlier this month to abolish the local government. Within hours after the city's only polling place closed, revelers had torn down the green-and-white Crystal Beach highway signs along Texas Route 87 and taunted lame-duck local police officers, who could no longer enforce the town...