Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Webb last week. Whereupon he launched a withering barrage at the Secretary of Defense for his decision to scrap 16 aging Navy frigates as part of this year's budget cuts. The former Marine, in office only eleven months, vowed, "I'm not walking this budget over to the Hill." Instead, he resigned...
Next day came the men, or to put things accurately, the man. There seemed to be only one skier on the hill. Austrian Hubert Strolz, the combined gold medalist, skied superbly, and Zurbriggen only a little less so. They finished second and third. After the commanding first run by Alberto Tomba, the 21- year-old Italian now universally known as La Bomba, it never seemed possible that he would lose. He did not. Tomba is a big, curly-haired, laughing fellow, winner of seven World Cup races already this season, who seems too tall and bulky to be the world...
...fare is just 75 cents, but the ride could be worth your life. The public- transit buses that wind through southeast San Francisco have come to be known as the "Savage Lines." In the tough, low-income areas of Bayview/ Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley and Potrero Hill, coaches have been battered with rocks, bottles, lead pipes and gunfire. Passengers and drivers have been beaten and robbed by gangs of teenagers. Since December more than 70 bus attacks have been reported...
That issue was at the top of the agenda last week, when Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan appeared on Capitol Hill to give his semiannual report on monetary policy. In a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, the panel's chairman, opened the proceedings with the statement that he was "troubled by the extent of the political pressure being put on the Fed by the Reagan Administration in this presidential election year." When questioned about such pressure, Greenspan acknowledged that he and other Fed officials had received a letter in January from Michael Darby, the chief...
...spectacular granite peaks that frame Rio de Janeiro make it one of the world's most striking cities. Relentless rains turned beauty into chaos last week, however, as floods and mudslides struck hill-hugging shantytowns and roared into busy neighborhoods below. One slide drove more than 500 tons of mud and rock onto a clinic for the aged, killing 25 patients and staff members. Rush-hour traffic braked to a halt as floodwaters covered downtown thoroughfares, causing ten-mile...