Word: linke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seven-lane bridge linking Seattle to its eastern suburbs across Lake Washington was closed twice after the collapse of an adjacent 50-year-old pontoon bridge. The 110,000 commuters depending on the link were forced to clog an alternate bridge or detour 30 miles. Property losses are expected to rise well above $100 million. Said Governor Booth Gardner: "My state is falling apart...
...renounced his Communist past and denied any responsibility for crimes committed under his rule. "If I had to do it over again, I would not even be a Communist, and if Lenin were alive today, he would say the same thing," said Zhivkov, who suggested that Bulgaria should now link its fortunes to capitalism and "strike a deal" with the U.S. "as soon as possible...
Conclusive proof of a link between betacarotene and cancer, says Hennekens, will comeabout only through the completion of a large-scalecomparison like the Physicians Health Trial, inwhich researchers carefully isolate the effect ofbeta carotene from all other substances with whichit naturally occurs...
...groups link themselves with the most banal and commercial of today's pop stars--people like George Michael and Phil Collins whose primary lyric is "I miss you, baby." With their pleasant, sleep-inducing hum, a cappella groups sing in a manner reminiscent of Muzak, that great piped-in music so often heard in certain Woolworth's branches...
Vietnam veterans have long contended that the herbicide Agent Orange, which contains dioxin, has contributed to birth defects in their children, although scientists have not been able to confirm the link. Still, a patchwork of reports continues to suggest at least a minor effect. The most recent study, published last month in the American Journal of Public Health, found that the children of men who served in Vietnam were 1.7 times as likely as the babies of other veterans to suffer from major malformations, such as clubfoot or serious heart problems...