Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state pocket being picked. Says Congressman Jim Moran of a plan that would bring the city few economic perks: "It is a classic case of how not to conduct public policy." Officials in Washington could only fear that getting Skinned meant the town would be rubbed off the map. "Brooklyn has never been the same since the Dodgers left," keened D.C. council chairman John Wilson, whose own city lost two baseball clubs in the 1950s. "You don't even think about Brooklyn...
...fateful chain reaction, seismologists believe, started in April, when an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude rattled the vicinity of Palm Springs and Joshua Tree National Monument. On a map, the fault that was then broken looks like a shotgun taking dead aim at Landers, and in fact it was. Two months later, a minor earthquake started on a fault with no name. For a few seconds, this temblor rattled at a magnitude of 3. Suddenly, seismometer readings soared as the fracture unzipped a sequence of larger faults nearby. Then three hours after the Landers earthquake shivered to a stop...
Still down in the polls, George Bush calls on an old friend to help him come from behind. But can Jim Baker map a winning strategy for a second term...
Southwestern Bell has oodles of information/message computer centers located throughout the Astrodome complex. Anyone at the convention can use the computers to obtain a daily agenda of all convention events, a map of Houston or any areas of the Astrodome complex, or suggestions for good dining or entertainment spots around the city. Best of all, anyone an leave a voice message with an operator which will be printed out at any computer when the recipient enters his or her name into the computer...
Many anxious inner-city parents send their children to live with relatives out of state. Unfortunately, many of these kids simply start new gangs, rather than new lives, in Grandma's neighborhood. "They've just transported the cancer," says Sergeant McBride, who has a large map on his office wall covered with red and blue flags showing how the Los Angeles Crips and Bloods have metastasized across the country...