Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voters' attention turns back to domestic affairs next year -- and that its candidate has a sensible program to offer. Otherwise the Democrats face a chilling worst-case scenario: that the party of F.D.R. and J.F.K. may one day join the party of Lenin and Stalin on the ash heap of history...
Twelve years into the chaos of airline deregulation, which has seen dozens of new carriers enter the business and fail, U.S. airlines are holding their last big sale. The industry lost a record $2.4 billion last year, sending Eastern to the scrap heap and four major carriers -- Continental, Pan Am, Midway and America West -- into bankruptcy. The last shaky carriers may soon follow. Once dominant TWA and USAir may be forced into mergers or bankruptcy before the end of the year...
Rummaging through a sloppy heap of papers, Rodriguez showed us a letter from Ochoa dated January 1990 proposing to mediate his dispute with Escobar, as well as his own reply three days later politely declining the offer. When we asked why a self-proclaimed law-abiding businessman maintains contact with an admitted trafficker like Ochoa, he shrugged and said, "We've been through a lot together...
...York City kindergarten teacher, agonizes over some of her pupils. "They have trouble retaining basic things. They are not sure of colors or shapes or their names." Their behavior is also out of the ordinary. "Some are passive and cry a lot; sometimes they just sit in a heap in the corner," says Beauzethier. Even worse, "they can be very aggressive with the other children so that they are hard to stop, and I have to hold their arms," she says. "This is very scary. We don't know a lot about handling these children...
...saying. To complete the film's moral balance, she has a brother who is the only figure totally insensate to the value, financial or spiritual, of the sculpture. To him it's just something to try to fence for a few pounds sterling and toss on a junk heap when he fails...