Word: halle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until then, toilet paper will remain a rarity in city hall rest rooms. The city cannot even afford new bulbs for its traffic lights. Parking meters work, but nobody feeds them because there is no money to hire meter maids. Garbage collection stopped for several months after the city fell $262,000 behind in payments to its trash contractor, and remains sporadic at best. Residents routinely dump garbage in vacant lots or abandoned buildings. As fast as buildings are boarded up to stop looting and dumping, thieves steal the plywood. Bob's Board-Up Service in St. Louis no longer...
Over at city hall, Mayor Officer somehow manages to remain determinedly upbeat, citing an ambitious $437 million plan for developing the East St. Louis riverfront that would include a cargo port, recycling center and high- rise apartments overlooking the river and downtown St. Louis. But no work has been done on the project for three years, and the tax-exempt status of the bonds sold to finance it is under review by the Internal Revenue Service. "I'm still optimistic," Officer insists. "We'll haul ourselves up by our bootstraps." But attorney Rex Carr, a lifelong resident of the city...
...segment of the population is overlooked. Youth is warned that food fights are unattractive and dangerous: "At Phillips Exeter Academy, a student was hit in the face with a piece of dining-hall meatloaf. Some of it got in his mouth, and he died." Older readers are counseled on fashion. For men: "A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life." For women, four iron rules: "1) No jewelry bigger than your dog; 2) No dog smaller than your purse; 3) No purse larger in diagonal measurement than your...
...complaints wore on, Gorbachev had reason to wonder, perhaps for the hundredth time, what he -- and glasnost -- had wrought. While his countrymen sat transfixed before their TV and radio sets, the Deputies who filled the vast hall continued to unleash frustration, criticism and not a little invective at their rulers -- even at Gorbachev himself. Some Muscovites said they found the show so riveting they had to keep their heart pills handy. Others admitted they watched and wept. One Transcaucasian Deputy aptly called the assembly a "volcano of words and wishes...
...failed to win a seat in the new Supreme Soviet, and that, it | seemed, was the end of his thrust for position. But then Deputy Alexei Kazannick, an obscure university professor from Siberia, rose and announced that he would relinquish his place to Yeltsin. As applause rang through the hall, Gorbachev watched impassively from the raised tribunal before he told the hushed assembly, "In principle, I support such a proposal...