Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capital building, taking a break from a debate over contested votes in his region, when a white vehicle pulled into the driveway. Without warning, a man in a black knit ski mask leaped out and started shooting. Javier jumped up and ran. Zigzagging across the building's broad concrete plaza, he tried to escape the relentless barrage of bullets. At least one hit its mark. Javier stumbled and fell into a small fishpond...
...shrivel up. No longer. Flowers, once an ornament reserved for special occasions, have become a year- round staple on many shopping lists. Now, no better reason for buying a bouquet is needed than that the sun is shining, or that the sun is not shining. Sandy Taylor, owner of Plaza Florist & Gifts in Urbandale, Iowa, has noticed the trend. Says she: "Lots of people buy flowers on the way home from work. When we sign the card we ask, 'For what occasion?' They say, 'No | occasion...
...Ortega Saavedra recently made the two-hour trip, he took along plenty of security. A fleet of more than a dozen sturdy vans accompanied the President's off-white Toyota, while an armed, Soviet-made helicopter provided surveillance from the air. When Ortega, 40, reached his destination, a makeshift plaza, he quickly took a seat behind a long table. "Face the People," a folksy forum that brings ordinary Nicaraguans into contact with officials of the Marxist-oriented Sandinista government, was under...
...rights activists, who had hoped for harsher sentences that would ease the pain suffered by families and friends of the estimated 9,000 people who disappeared during the dirty war. After Arslanian read the decision acquitting Galtieri and the others, Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, angrily donned a white kerchief embroidered with the human rights group's mournful motto, MAY THE DISAPPEARED APPEAR ALIVE. When De Bonafini refused to remove the offending garment, the judge ordered her to leave the courtroom. "I had no other way of protesting...
Copley Place: Copley Plaza, Boston, 266-1300. Shoah: parts 1 & 2: 1:30, 7; Santa Claus: 4:45, 5:15, 7:30, 8, 10, 10:15; Macaroni: 10:30, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10; Return: 10, 11:30, 1, 2:30, 4, 5:30, 7, 8:30, 10; Back to the Future: 10:30, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10; Agnes of God: 7:45, 9:45; Bad Medicine...