Word: reopen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ardor of gunmen, who roamed the streets carrying an umbrella in one hand and a rifle in the other. The lull coincided with end-of-the-month anticipation of paychecks, a time when many street fighters have a personal interest in maintaining at least enough order for banks to reopen...
...that the FBI is badly shaken by the Oswald cover-up that failed [Nov. 3]. How do we find out who else covered up important information about the J.F.K. assassination unless we reopen the investigation into the assassination? Why should we have to wait until A.D. 2039 for the answers? Or is this FBI confession another red herring to divert our attention once more from the truth...
...only source of reliable information for Lebanese during the fighting. Thus encouraged, Beirutis took advantage of the fragile peace. Many who had been trapped in their homes emerged-some in order to flee the city. Overflow lines of visa applicants waited outside the U.S. embassy. Most stores did not reopen, but sidewalk vendors-sometimes offering looted goods from those same closed stores-busily peddled everything from vegetables to fancy clothes. Suitcases were especially hot items. Traffic was nearly at normal bumper-to-bumper proportions in some areas, though it thinned out early each afternoon, particularly on streets dividing opposing sides...
Clean-up efforts began, but schools and most banks did not reopen, and most civil servants ignored Premier Karami's order to return to work. One suspicion was that the lull was only a "paycheck truce" during which the soldiers of the private militias involved would collect back salaries from local political bosses or other employers, get food for their families and rebuild their own supply of arms and ammunition...
Raia is the only person working in his part of the building, the brick part, these days. There are two other offices there, but both are empty. Taxman, an income-tax company, is closed in the off- (not near April 15) season and will reopen in January, as it does every year. AID, Inc., which finds temporary employees for businesses, is shut down for good. Business was bad in the Concord Building, and AID is scouting for a new location...