Word: jam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sandbars that have blocked as many as 130 towboats and 3,000 giant river barges filled with paper, grain and chemicals headed for market. Around Greenville and Vicksburg, Miss., the Army engineers have had to dredge an emergency channel in the shrinking river to & unclog the bizarre traffic jam. At Memphis low water levels broke all the records that had been put down on the books going back to 1872. But where somebody is losing a buck, there is always an American hustler trying to make one. The Illinois Central Railroad has put on additional cars to carry grain that...
...spring water levels reached their lowest point on record, 1,200 barges were stranded after they ran aground at Greenville, Miss. According to Michael Logue, spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, twice as many barges could become mired this week, creating the aquatic equivalent of a "traffic jam of semitrucks bumper to bumper from New Orleans to Philadelphia...
...narrow streets of downtown Johannesburg were strangely silent last week. Black workers and shoppers who normally jam the district by day were nowhere to be seen. Stores did desultory business; restaurants closed their doors. In ( Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg, residents remained inside their homes...
Today's tourists are discovering a Turkey that transcends popular stereotypes. In Istanbul they jam the Topkapi Palace to gaze at the 400-room harem of the sultanate and to view its incomparable treasury of emeralds, diamonds, gold and ivory. They pack the Blue Mosque and the other masterpieces of Mehmet Aga, Turkey's great 17th century architect. Bargain hunters fill the cavernous covered bazaar looking for rugs, leather goods and gold. To the south, near Izmir, tour guides jockey for position at the ruins of Ephesus, where the main attraction is the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven...
...drew raves for its rap musical, The Gang's New Threads, which was really The Emperor's New Clothes updated to critique present-day fashion trends in Harvard Square. It was hip, it was funny, it was even socially relevant--and the all-original raps, produced in dorm-room jam sessions, were fresh...