Word: mazes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unlikely to survive.) The House has passed eight and may approve four more before Christmas. The Senate has completed only three and is likely to pass only four more. Thus, despite all the fuss and expense, the 98th Congress may have to go through much of the same legislative maze all over again in January. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Neil MacNeil and Evan Thomas/Washington
...opulent, too extravagant, they claim. In the midst of a severe economic slump, how can they justify moving in to a structure with white marble, bronze elevator doors and rooftop tennis courts? How would they explain to constituents visiting their offices--if they could find them in the maze of facilities...
Having scored that victory, the Iranians went no farther. Nor are they likely to. The reason: the broad, flat plain between the border and Amara is a maze of earthen walls and slit trenches. Hundreds upon hundreds of Soviet-built Iraqi tanks, armored personnel carriers, guns and rocket launchers dot the eerie landscape, each hunkered down behind its own earth revetment. If the Iranians attempted to move toward Amara, they would invite the same decimation that they received in five full-scale attacks last summer, when wave upon wave of poorly trained Islamic Guards rushed across the flood plain...
...miler than a sprinter. The 20 stories reveal a versatile and far-ranging mind: one tale concerns two research scientists' attempt to decipher the writing of ants; another tells of an animal's efforts to understand the motives of a lab technician who puts it into a maze ("The alien's cruelty is refined, yet irrational," the animal observes. "If it intended all along to starve me, why not simply withhold the food?"). The wittiest story examines the subject of time and deals with humanity's persistent demand: Why is there never enough? One answer...
...group's popularity peaked in early 1981, after Bobby Sands and other I.R.A. members in Maze Prison went on a hunger strike in a bid to be classified as political prisoners. But by year's end, after Sands and nine other strikers had died, sympathy for the I.R.A. had faded and the strike was called off. So far this year, more than 500 suspected members have been arrested in police raids, and violence has dropped to its lowest level since...