Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flames towering hundreds of feet engulfed vacationers and their gear, setting off a secondary round of blasts from exploding butane cookers and automobile gas tanks. Parts of the tanker were blown almost half a mile away. Trailers were burnt to their frames in an instant, like paper models. Campers ran into the water to douse the flames on their bodies, only to be burned even more severely by the chemical reaction...
...original Velvet Brown, the young and glorious Elizabeth Taylor ran her horse Pie to victory in England's Grand National. Now, Velvet is a high-strung middle-aged woman (Nanette Newman) who lives in sin with a blocked novelist known as John (Christopher Plummer). Tatum plays Sarah Velvet Brown, a recently orphaned niece who ar rives from Arizona to live with her aunt. Once she meets Pie's latest foal, history very slowly but surely repeats itself...
...start a new life. They said it would be safer there. Now black smoke hangs over it like a cloud smelling of death. Shells land every three minutes. In the Phalangist stronghold of Ain Rumanneh, every house has been hit and many leveled. One man who ran upstairs during a lull to salvage an old family heirloom had his legs blown off. The guns keep firing, the Phalange radio says hundreds are homeless, and it's hard to watch and not feel sorry for us all. You would think we had had enough...
...that the town's founder, Ace Borger, was shot dead in the post office. He cheerfully relates that his last exposure to classroom economics was a basic course at the Coast Guard Academy 33 years ago. All his knowledge of money markets was picked up while he ran Textron Inc., the $2.8 billion conglomerate based in Providence that makes thousands of products, ranging from helicopters to watchbands...
...also plunged into public service and ran national programs to hire Viet Nam veterans and train unemployed blacks. That won him a justified reputation for social concern. Though his dedicated inflation fighting satisfies the most conservative Republicans, Miller is a registered Democrat who worries greatly about unemployment; in the past he supported the abortive presidential bid of Liberal Hubert Humphrey. So it was not surprising that when Carter had had enough of Arthur Burns' professorial nagging, a search team headed by Vice President Walter Mondale put Miller on a short list of potential successors at the Fed. Carter, aware that...