Word: high
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...residents complained of high noise levels from late-night and early-morning unloading of foodstuffs and the 24-hour operation of large air conditioning systems at the Porter Square and Mt. Auburn St. Star Markets...
...House Intelligence Committee. "And it ought to remain there. The fact that there's a little bit of uncertainty about the Executive Order serves a useful purpose. We should be cautious when it comes to coups that may lead to assassination." In fact, the CIA has procedures for high-level review of operations that could violate the ban. And yet a clear distinction between coups and assassinations is not always possible. The ban was not originally meant to restrict covert political-action operations at all, recalls Helms. "A coup d'etat seems to be confused by some people with...
...What is new is the political consciousness. Even in the ordinary kid in primary school. The quality of the young people who are now handling the situation is very high. When we were running things, we never reached that stage...
...dwell on the changes sweeping the country, and helped make the paper the most widely read in the Soviet Union. Yet last week both men faced pressures far worse than those posed by deadlines: Afanasyev was summarily fired from his job and Starkov's resignation was demanded by high Kremlin officials...
Those precautions saved hundreds of lives. In San Francisco modern office high-rises, many standing on huge steel-and-rubber springs deep below their foundations, rode out the bucking movement, bouncing and swaying as much as 30 ft. from side to side without cracking open. Within minutes after the quaking subsided, emergency response teams, honed by hundreds of hours of drills, began rescuing victims, sealing off dangerously weakened structures and coordinating relief efforts...