Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...island hoppers from Trinidad and Barbados. Cuban engineers began building the airport in the early 1980s, during the leftist regime of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. One U.S. invasion and $19 million in aid later, Point Salines International is completed and, much like Grenada, sits waiting for something to happen...
...gear and sent messages to Washington by courier through Frankfurt. Those steps, as well as a global investigation of the Marine guard force, have cost U.S. taxpayers more than $100 million. But last week one senior Marine officer concluded that the alleged penetration of the embassy "just didn't happen...
...that children have no idea that it's sex. To children it looks like a fight. They see two people sweating, jumping, screaming . . . all of a sudden he's knocked out, and she's dancing. The kid is wondering, 'I never even saw the punch. How did this happen?' " And putting down a heckler: "All great men were rejected. You'll never have this problem...
...many Americans would disqualify a presidential candidate for a bit of plagiarism either. That didn't help Joe Biden. It remains to be seen how much damage the marijuana issue will do to presidential candidates like Albert Gore and Bruce Babbitt. But there is no doubt what would happen to the latest Supreme Court nominee if a joint or two turned up in his background. He'd be finished...
...bring a general slump, and yet few economists feel certain one way or another. Says Jerry Jasinowski, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers: "We're in the eye of a hurricane right now. All the usual indicators aren't very useful in telling what's going to happen next." While the consensus is that growth will slow to a laggard 1% or 2% early in 1988, there are no concrete signs so far of a drastic consumer-spending slowdown. Last week the Commerce Department reported that retail sales during October were up .7%, not including autos. Even with...