Word: rammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mayor Ramón Aguirre of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party insists that 95% of the inhabitants have access to water, but for many that means one faucet shared by an entire block...
Next month engineers will ram the first of three corrective steel barriers, or weirs, into the channel bed to readjust the river's flow. In the project's second phase, they will begin dumping dirt into six miles of the channel once so carefully scooped out. If all goes well over the next 15 years, the river will gradually rise and engulf the artificially dry plains that surround it, transforming them back to the lush, mosquito-ridden swamps they were for hundreds of thousands of years...
Mondale, who felt indebted to Lance for helping him win crucial primaries in Alabama and Georgia last March 13, evidently hoped to ram through the appointment while the convention was celebrating Ferraro's nomination as Vice President. But a series of news leaks, riled the delegates before they arrived in San Francisco. By the time Mondale showed up on Monday, they were fighting mad, even though the Mondale camp had wisely decided to back off, at least halfway...
...country's first since the 1979 Sandinista takeover. He did not, however, lift the "state of emergency," now extended until Oct. 20, that allows press censorship and curtails civil liberties. Only two days earlier, the Sandinistas had named Ortega as their candidate for President Daniel Ortega and Sergio Ramírez Mercado, a novelist who is also a member of the junta, to run for Vice President...
Near the dusty cattle town of Liberia in Costa Rica, members of the Civil Guard are listlessly chasing a stray hummingbird through their armory. "Actually, most of these guns are for the birds," jokes Colonel José Ramón Montero, a rice farmer who prefers T shirts to camouflage and diligently observes banker's hours. "These M-1s could have seen service at Normandy, and most of these weapons would be more valuable in Hollywood." His company's mission, however, is no scriptwriter's flight of fancy: his men are serving as a first line...