Word: mille
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...town's business district, four square blocks of shops, bars and other enterprises, including a feed mill and a cheese factory, lay in the flood plain of the Kickapoo River. Five times in the past 75 years, the village was hit by devastating floods. After one, the citizens sent an arriving Red Cross contingent home. They would take care of themselves, they said. And they did. To thwart the rampaging river once and for all, they decided to pick up the whole business district and move it half a mile away and 55 ft. higher...
...Attorney General Robert Abrams was trying to smash a ring of ghostwriters who sell term papers to college students. Instead of cocaine or marijuana, the evidence included papers with titles like "The Importance of Fate in Romeo and Juliet" and "Mycenaean and Minoan Architecture." The culprit: a term-paper mill named Collegiate Research Systems Inc. that sells roughly 500 ghostwritten essays in a good month from a 305-page catalogue, grossing about...
Running a computer search on the car's license plates, the officers discovered that the tags had been reported stolen. The police quietly arrested the driver, whose name was Peter Sutcliffe, 35, a truck driver from the West Yorkshire mill town of Bradford. Three days later, nearly all of Britain knew of Sutcliffe: he was widely -some said recklessly-suspected of being the country's most notorious criminal, the Yorkshire Ripper, the man believed responsible for murdering 13 Yorkshire and Lancashire women since...
Bunky produced all the Sheppards' songs. They had two top lead singers. Murrie Eskridge took the harder-driving numbers and Millard ("Mill") Edwards handled the more wistful songs, making Island of Love come within cutting distance of some of the Drifters' best material. Unlike the long-lived Drifters, the Sheppards broke up and stayed broken. Who remembered? Who even knew...
...reaction to a simple football match seems exaggerated or inappropriate, consider Pittsburgh for a moment. Primarily a blue-collar worker's town, most of the people who live here, from lawyers to contractors to mill workers to coal miners, are in some way involved in the steel industry. Consider also, that the recent slump in the steel market, aggravated in part by the recession and by competitive foreign steel markets such as Japan's and West Germany's, has forced many plants to close down, leaving many thousands of steel workers unemployed. The layoff of the steelworkers has serious repercussions...