Word: known
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade ago, it was easy to name America's best-known historic homes. They were Monticello and Mount Vernon. But since it opened to the public in 1982, Elvis' place in suburban Whitehaven, a 30-minute drive from downtown Memphis, has attracted more than 3 million visitors. That figure makes it one of the top house attractions in the U.S. This year alone, some 640,000 people will visit Graceland, and in the process they will spend more than $10 million on tickets, food and souvenirs...
...half prayer, half politics -- is conducted in utmost secrecy. After Riverside's search committee makes its choice, it will not give the names of also-rans to the deacons who govern the church and it will shred all the papers in its double-locked filing cabinet. "If it is known you are a candidate and don't get the call, it is very rough," explains search-committee chairman J. Richard Butler. One church that publicly named several finalists years ago lived to regret it: one of the rejected ministers was so crushed that he suffered a nervous breakdown...
...California who has visited Armenia, many buildings in the region are made of 8-in.-thick concrete slabs held together by metal hooks and mortar. Poorer Armenians, he says, tend to live in "very fragile, very deadly houses" made of unreinforced mud and rock. Yet geologists have long known that the region affected by the quake is interlaced with small faults in the earth's crust and has been shaken by dozens of serious tremors this century. "Where were the seismologists, the architects and the construction workers that drafted and built the houses that fell apart like matchboxes?" Komsomolskaya Pravda...
...reason is largely economic. Parents and students think they will get a higher return on their $16,000-plus annual investment from a brand-name institution such as Yale, Caltech or the University of Chicago than from a lesser-known school. But these same colleges are trying to attract students from diverse ethnic, racial, geographic and economic backgrounds, making the admissions hurdle still higher for the majority of white middle-class applicants. One measure of the competitiveness: last year the University of Pennsylvania rejected 35% of those who scored an extraordinary 1,400 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test...
...planes evidently got caught in crossfire between Morocco and | Polisario guerrillas, who have been battling for 13 years for ownership of the territory known as the Western Sahara. It seems likely that Polisario gunners fired at the planes, mistaking them for Moroccan aircraft...