Word: rapides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fundamental desire of Americans to own their own property, by luck or by pluck, has inspired some creative ways to reclaim the dream. In fact, the rapid increase in prices has prompted many potential buyers to hasten their search, since waiting would put them farther behind. In their zeal to raise down payments, young buyers are raiding their retirement accounts -- and duly paying the penalties -- or ceding part of the equity in their homes to outside investors. Others are turning for help to state-financed programs and innovative private and nonprofit housing developers...
When Patrick Purdy sprayed 100 or so bullets from a rapid-fire assault rifle into a crowd of children outside a Stockton, Calif., elementary school, killing five students and wounding 29 others and one teacher before dispatching himself with a pistol, he set off a national wave of horror. If tots playing innocently in a schoolyard at recess are no longer safe from heavily armed criminals and lunatics, who is? Many citizens concluded that no one is, and some on the West Coast resolved to take action. Their solution: to arm themselves for survival in a world seemingly gone...
...clandestine cottage industry has grown up to convert these guns into full ! automatics, which can fire long bursts with a single pull of the trigger (a semi-automatic, despite its rapid-fire capability, requires a separate squeeze of the trigger for each round). A skilled gunsmith can accomplish the conversion for almost all semiautomatics, and there is a considerable demand for that service. Since 1934 federal law has made full automatics, such as machine guns, difficult to buy for anyone except police, the military and licensed collectors. A private purchaser has to obtain both federal and state licenses and undergo...
...midflight last April, sounded again last week. Eastern Flight 251, bound from Rochester to Atlanta, was forced into a terrifying emergency dive, plunging 21,000 ft. in just one minute after a sudden rupture tore a 14-in. hole in the fuselage, depressurizing the cabin. Though the rapid descent caused some of the passengers excruciating ear pain, no one was seriously injured, and the 22-year-old Boeing 727 landed safely in Charleston...
...going to get easier anytime soon. In a TIME survey of ten economists in the U.S. and several others in Japan and Europe, a consensus emerged that the economy's speedy growth is, paradoxically, one of its biggest problems. The aging recovery has a reduced tolerance for rapid expansion because it is straining against shortages of workers and factory capacity. Many economists fear those limitations could impose renewed inflationary pressures, forcing the Federal Reserve to tighten the money supply even more than it already has. By hitting the brakes too hard, the central bank could inadvertently stall the economy...