Word: recently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...band of thieves in the Los Angeles area has staged more than 30 violent raids on travel agencies. The gang demands blank tickets and the validation plates that print airline identifications, then sells thousands of hot tickets on the black market at a 50% discount. During heists in recent weeks, two female employees were raped, one agent was knifed and another killed...
...when she turned 18 from her adoptive mother. Szymczak called the local post office, found a retired mailman and got him talking about the family -- her family. She contacted old neighbors, who led her to friends. Some had seen the woman, who now lived out of state, at a recent high school reunion. Finally, she got her phone number...
...bullish executives had hoped to find a niche for the midsize airline by developing a hub at the Kansas City airport, an opening that was created by a retrenchment at bankrupt Eastern Airlines. But Braniff's business failed to grow fast enough to support its debt payments. When a recent bridge financing deal for $75 million fell through, Braniff was strapped for cash. The bankrupt airline, which has laid off 2,800 of its 4,800 employees, hopes to rebuild slowly...
...most hotly contested election years in recent history, the school has inevitably become one of the most pressing issues facing candidates for City Council in this November's voting...
Tuesday's march was noteworthy, however, for its lack of political overtone. Organizer Phillip Martin says he did not even want politicians at the vigil. Although Alan Bell, one of the few conservative Blacks to mount a City Council challenge in recent years, did march at the front of the rally, most other candidates did not attend...