Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been hit with a one-two punch that leaves them wondering where to turn next. First, on Dec. 5, the waters of the Meramec swept through the town in the worst flood in Times Beach's history. The town, which sprang up in the 1920s as a summer resort and later became a permanent working-class community, is now a picture of near desolation. A muddy brown film coats the small clapboard houses and trailer homes, many of which are ripped apart. Stoves and pieces of carpet sit in yards. Piles of trash and decaying food are heaped everywhere...
...last week's sessions, which alternated between Khalde, a Lebanese seaside resort south of Beirut, and the Israeli border community of Qiryat Shemona, the two sides found little to agree on. The head of the Lebanese delegation, Antoine Fattal, declared that Lebanon had never wanted to be a source of hostile action against Israel and was neither "responsible nor accountable" for the longtime presence of the Palestine Liberation Organization within its borders. David Kimche, director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry and head of his country's delegation, replied that Lebanon's signing...
...loses $16 million 'T is the season when the beautiful people cluster at one of their favorite In places, the Spanish Mediterranean resort of Marbella, just west down the coast from Malaga. Clustering there too this Christmas, alas for them, were the creme de la creme of criminals. When Francisco Yelamo, director of the Marbella branch of the Banco de Andalucia, unlocked his bank on the town's main street, the Avenida de Ricardo Soriano, at the end of the Christmas holiday early last week, he opened the doors on a burglary so thorough that it rocked...
...Miami number for information about an upcoming meeting on U.S. soil of the Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense (F.D.N.), a coalition of Nicaraguan exile groups that are opposed to the leftist Sandinista regime in Managua. When leaders of the F.D.N. showed up at a Fort Lauderdale resort hotel last week, the conclave turned out to be about as clandestine as a charity clambake. The real purpose of the get-together: to spruce up the F.D.N.'s public image in a bid to widen its base of support in the U.S. and Central America...
...believe that the rate of growth of the Mexican foreign debt has been excessive. We need to resort a great deal less to foreign indebtedness...