Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of the problem stems from the country's extreme poverty and technological limitations. Untold numbers of poorly designed earthen dikes gave way last week. The embankments lack solid foundations, notes James Conway of the U.N.'s World Food Program, "because they don't even have rocks in Bangladesh." WFP has been donating millions of dollars' worth of wheat a year to the Dhaka government, which gives it to laborers for building dikes in a food-for-work program. Laments Andrei Filotti, a hydraulic engineer who advises Dhaka on flood containment: "We have poured $200 million into these dikes...
...part of a resort-industry trend toward offering action-oriented vacations, the Hyatt-Waikoloa boasts a fleet of paddle boats plying a four- acre lagoon and trams traveling over wildlife preserves. For the less adventuresome: seven restaurants, twelve bars and a mile-long gallery of Oriental art. The resort cost more than $360 million to build, including $2 million for a 77-step, pink-flagstone grand staircase...
...boycott team and watched the victories go to a Soviet and an East German whom Louganis had outscored at Montreal four years before. Louganis achieved his double at Los Angeles in 1984 and hinted at retirement. But next week he too will be competing in Seoul, perhaps in part because he is one of just a handful of U.S. and Soviet athletes with a personal memory of a real Olympics -- one that transcends diplomatic chills and thaws and brings together the world's best in the 23 official sports of the Summer Games...
...down the hall. He must meet an 11 p.m. curfew and take a mandatory 90-min. nap at noon. Although the sport is big enough in Europe that club players can earn in excess of $50,000 a year, Story survives on $4,000 from donations and a part- time job with the U.S.O.C. ticket office, plus free room and board...
...American Savings and Loan Association (assets: $30.8 billion) of Stockton, Calif. If he can turn American Savings around, Bass, like many other new owners who have paid fire- sale prices for their S and Ls, stands to earn an enormous profit. The deal seems virtually guaranteed to succeed: as part of the rescue, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board pledged a record $2 billion to help prop up American Savings...