Word: patches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twilight, about 300 illegal immigrants had massed on "the soccer field," a patch of rock-strewn brown earth halfway up Otay Mesa and just across the U.S. border from a rundown section of Tijuana, Mexico. Some bought tacos from a vendor who wheeled a white cart through the crowd; others burned old tires to cook makeshift meals before pushing off into the rattlesnake-infested canyons leading toward San Ysidro, Calif., and points north. Two dozen agents of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), deployed in Dodge Ram trucks on surrounding hillsides, squinted through binoculars to count the aliens...
...going into overdrive once again after hitting a rough patch. Sales reached 526,300 in 1978, but then were stalled by rising interest rates and fears of a gasoline shortage. Only 181,400 were sold in 1980, and half the manufacturers and dealers folded. But last year sales were back...
...while "Nightline" has yet to devote a half-hour to undergarments, it has addressed everything from the Iran-Iraq war to the beauty of Mt Everest, from the possibility of a nuclear apocalypse to Cabbage Patch dolls. "Can you name a subject 'Nightline' hasn't discussed?" Koppel asks...
...miraculous. But there wasn't a whole lot to say, especially after we lost touch with the climbing team." "The program was kind of nothing," he continues. "Every once in a while the shows are, quite frankly, boring We did a totally sweet and forgettable show on the Cabbage Patch dolls...
While the University had already determined that certain locations did contain asbestos, officials decided against removing the material, and opted to cover or patch the affected areas...