Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people stumbling along the roads," says Perry. "Hell, I've done it myself." Negotiating a trying intersection in his sewage truck, three-wheeled motorcycles coming at him like torpedoes, Perry recalls that Barrow put up some traffic signs about three years ago. "People just ran over them. Some of us try to remember what the laws used to be." Today there are no stop lights, no signs...
...rice, frijoles, salad, $15.75.) But thriving exacts some cost in the Arctic Circle. "It's tough up here," says Fran, who lived in a garage on a dirt floor in 1977-she, two dachshunds and an electric heater. The inside temperature was 31°F below zero. She ran an outfit called Speedy Secretary then, but an IBM salesman blew through town, sold everybody a copier and put her out of business. "You can't run across the street to the hardware store for a fuse or anything. Nine times out often you have to send away...
Though no polls have been released in the two weeks since the convention, Kerry is expected to remain in front because he has high name recognition. He ran a successful statewide race for lieutenant governor in 1982--even after losing the party's endorsement--and he is positively identified with the popular administration of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, an officially neutral observer in this race...
...Phantom jets, which were supplied to Iran by the U.S. in the days of the Shah, took off from their base at Bushire shortly before noon last Tuesday. On the prowl for likely naval targets, they flew down the gulf near the Saudi island of Al Arabiyah, where they ran straight into a patrol of Saudi F-15 planes. Highflying U.S. AWACS planes had tracked the Iranian jets across the gulf, then Saudi coastal radar picked them up when they came within range. With the Saudi technician aboard the AWACS plane relaying information and guiding his own fighters...
Andrews does not possess, however, the formidable reputation of Thompson, perhaps the most powerful church official in U.S. Protestantism, who ran the Northern Presbyterian division for 17 years. At congressional hearings and meetings of the National Council of Churches, where he served as president, and the World Council of Churches, he has long been an articulate voice for the liberal position on such issues as abortion, nuclear disarmament and U.S. policy in Central America. Andrews is of similar mind but has been less outspoken...