Word: mazes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earthquake was the latest catastrophe for the Armenians, an ancient people who through the ages have been massacred, conquered and divided. Their home is a region of mountain ranges and fertile valleys, roughly the size of Maryland, lying in what the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov called the "high Caucasian maze." Of the republic's 3.5 million people, 90% are Armenian...
Between the problems of threading the regulatory maze and the mechanical difficulties, the project has been a cliffhanger for Buckley and Alexander Hadden, a co-investor whom Buckley credits with seeing the enterprise through. "Without his strength and determination," he says, "I don't know if I would have stuck with it." For Hadden it has been a matter of common sense. "It's crazy not to use this power that's freely available and does no harm to the environment...
Although Dukakis' proposal to create a Environment Department is well-intentioned, it has possible drawbacks, particularly with respect to water resources. A maze of agencies, councils, committees and departments with some authority in water issues already exists to create a poorly integrated administrative structure--one sharply criticized in the K-School report. The new cabinet level position might only add to the confusion, due to the inevitable wrangling and ambiguity over responsibility for various areas. It has the potential to sunder water quality from water quantity--almost certainly a mistake...
Even hardened video-game junkies know that when the quarters run out, it is time to quit playing. That time has come for Bally, the entertainment powerhouse that once had the whole country zapping Space Invaders and propelling Pac-man through a maze. After 57 years of making pinball machines and, later, video games, the Chicago-based company announced it would sell its arcade-game division to WMS Industries, its major competitor, for $8 million. Video games earned Bally $91 million in 1982, but in 1983 the video craze cooled and profits plummeted to $5.2 million. Bally, which owns four...
...evening rush hour, the engineer of commuter train No. 153951 peered down the tracks of Paris' Gare de Lyon and screamed in horror: another train was bearing down on him at high speed. Seconds later, the runaway train rammed 153951 at more than 50 m.p.h., turning it into a maze of shredded steel. The collision last week was the worst rail accident in Paris history and one of the worst ever in France. The toll: 56 dead and 13 seriously injured...