Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deeper question at issue is how long and how easily democracy and dictatorship can live together. In some respects, Chun has eased his country steadily closer to freedom. The man in the Korean street no longer observes a midnight curfew, fears no sudden police raids and is able to travel abroad much more easily than before. Nonetheless, South Korea remains a virtual police state. The former general had hardly seized power when he pushed through martial law and placed many of his enemies under house arrest. To this day, the press is muzzled and the spreading of "black rumors" against...
...separate development, a female sophomore at Swarthmore College escaped the attack of a strangler outside her dorm shortly before midnight last Thursday, said Al Roth, the Director of Security and Safety Services at Swarthmore...
Borrell began making travel plans as soon as news of the U.S.-Libya clash reached Egypt. Since it was already past midnight in Cairo and direct air travel from Egypt to Libya is nonexistent, Borrell phoned a travel agent in Seattle (where it was still midafternoon) to book air passage through Zurich. Eight hours later he was in Tripoli, trying to pry a few nuggets of information from the Libyan government. "The biggest frustration," says Borrell, "was that the action was hundreds of miles away, out in the gulf...
...Francisco. New York City's Dollar Dry Dock Savings Bank is offering new IRA depositors an immediate cash bonus of up to $30. The First National Bank of Chicago has set up an IRA center that will be open on the Saturday before the deadline and until midnight on April 15. To handle the rush, senior executives will be tapped to wait on customers...
...once again members began to drift out as the meeting stretched on past midnight. By the time the final vote on the entire $24,000 Grants Budget was about to be made, various council members near me had commented that they did not believe a quorum existed. Despite this no member called for a count of the membership present. As Chairman Brian Offut was about to call the vote, I called "Quorum" and was immediately hissed. Although I persisted, Offut attempted to ignore me, at one point saying: "There seems to be a ringing in my ears." When he finally...