Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quincy House Superintendent Ronald Levesque said he was working in his office when he heard smoke detectors buzzing and saw a large fire in the room's window. Grabbing fire extinguishers as he ran, Levesque climbed the stairs and was joined by maintenance crew chief Manuel DaSilva...
...York Giants moved within a game of their first Super Bowl appearance ever by demolishing the San Francisco 49ers, 49-3, yesterday as Phil Simms passed for four touchdowns, Joe Morris ran for 159 yards and linebacker Carl Banks led a defense that shut down one of the NFL's top offenses...
...half-time lead with two touchdowns in the final 50 seconds, then scored three more in the third quarter. In the second half, San Francisco was forced to go with quarterback Jeff Kemp instead of regular QB Joe Montana. Montana left with a concussion when Jim Burt ran into him just before the half. On the play, Lawrence Taylor picked off a pass and returned it 34 yards for a touchdown...
Routine had suddenly turned to terror after the jetliner, a Boeing 737, had been aloft for almost an hour on its 90-minute flight from Baghdad to the Jordanian capital of Amman. Passengers were just finishing a chicken lunch when a man suddenly ran through the cabin toward the cockpit, wildly shouting "Hey, hey, hey, hey!" A plainclothes security officer yelled, "Stop that!," but the battle between as many as four hijackers and half a dozen Iraqi security men had already begun. According to Passenger Dado, the first terrorist then lobbed a grenade into the rear cabin and another into...
Every season brought something to celebrate. A breathtaking slide in oil prices made gasoline cheaper than it had been since 1979. Inflation fell so low that it actually ran backward for several months. Even the tax system, of all things, changed for the better when Congress delivered a historic reform law that will lower rates for most consumers and wipe out many of the loopholes long enjoyed by businesses and wealthier Americans. Meanwhile, Government investigators cracked down on Wall Street's insider traders, who had been reaping outrageous profits at the expense of ordinary investors...