Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...itself, clawing out 33 downtown acres to make way for Charles Center, a high-rise office development fronting on the city's main north-south thoroughfare. Next, moving harborward, came I.M. Pei's 28-story World Trade Center. It was accompanied by a long-needed Convention Center and the Maryland Science Center, where visitors are encouraged to touch exhibits, push buttons, pull levers and turn wheels. Also on the waterfront, a music tent called the Outdoor Concert...
...else fails, the Republican trump card is television, as practiced by Ronald Reagan. During his 22-minute speech to the nation, the President told the American people to keep those cards and letters coming in to their Congressmen. Although the hot dogs at Camp David did not convert Maryland Democrat Beverly Byron, a thousand calls to her after the speech did. She, like so many others, went the President's way after a nudge from the voters. -By Ellie McGrath. Reported...
...side of the road. A new law in Michigan that allows police to detain drivers whom they suspect of drinking has increased arrests by 21% over the past year and a half. Previously, an officer either had to see an incident or find a witness to it. Maryland's arrest rate is up 109% this year, in part because of a $150,000 federal grant that pays state troopers to work overtime, particularly on weekends, to nab boozed-up motorists...
Congressman Paul ("Pete") McCloskey five months ago predicted that Israel might well try to destroy the nuclear facilities of its Arab antagonists, like Iraq. The prophetic California Republican is also one of the few members of Congress-another is Republican Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland-who openly raises an uncomfortable question: Is American policy in the Middle East being unduly influenced by the ardent lobby of Israel's supporters...
Dashiell Hammett was boru in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, in May of 1894 and died 67 years later a few hundred miles north in New York City. In the intervening years he was a detective, an invalid and one of Faulkner's drinking partners. He annoyed Hemingway, raised the wrath of the McCarthyites, fought in two wars, went to jail and revolutionized the now well-known genre of detective fiction. From Red Harvest through The Maltese Falcon. The Thin Man and a hundred more short stories, he developed and became the epitome of the hard-boiled but literate writer...