Word: might
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mile-long concrete monstrosity. Today the Wall continues to pierce the hearts of Berliners every bit as effectively as its pipes, barbed wires and other sharp obstacles once sliced the bodies of desperate refugees. But for the first time since Kennedy's appeal, it seems possible that the Wall might come tumbling down...
Even if the Wall is stripped of political significance, it still serves a purpose by applying a brake to refugee traffic. An East German official predicts that once free travel wipes out border barriers, about 1.5 million of the country's 16.6 million citizens might head West. Without the Wall, West Berlin will bear the brunt of that great rush. But West Berlin's workers already resent the city's shortages of jobs and housing and the heavy concentration of alien guest workers from Turkey and ethnic Germans from the East bloc. Ironically, unless the burden of a new influx...
...burning was designed to produce a quick challenge to the Flag Protection Act of 1989, passed by Congress last month amid an orgy of jingoistic rhetoric. If the Supreme Court strikes down the law on constitutional grounds, as seems likely, Congress might be stampeded into approving an anti-flag burning amendment urged by President Bush. It might be wiser to turn down the heat...
...suburb of Issaquah in a cedar split-level that cost them $110,000 less than their California home. Even if Kelly's income has dipped 20%, his commute is mercifully brief. At the wheel, he says, he no longer starts at the sound of a backfire for fear it might be a highway shooting. "We were tired of being in the fast lane," says Mary Cutlip, 36. "We wanted a more peaceable, low-key way of life. We wanted our kids to grow up at a slower pace...
When the Maxwells put their house up for sale, they noted that ten of the 30 prospective buyers who came to see it were from California. None of them would admit it at first, for fear the Maxwells might not sell them the property...