Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those measures fail Simon said he wouldraise taxes: "As a last resort, and only a lastresort, I am willing to raise taxes...
...obstacles to successful talks were great, the alternative seemed both chilling and futile. Through the week hundreds of police, state troopers and SWAT-team commandos staked out both facilities. The Pentagon dispatched an Army Special Operations Forces group to Atlanta. Yet no one was anxious to resort to force, remembering the lessons of the 1971 uprising at New York's Attica prison, where after four days of inconclusive talks lawmen stormed the facility and touched off a bloodbath in which 32 prisoners and eleven guards and other civilian personnel died. Experts on hostage situations have since tended to focus...
BOSTON--The Reagan administration has asked Congress to delay paying the federal share of a $4.5 million settlement that would end a century-old land dispute with Wampanoag Indians living on the Massachusetts resort island of Martha's Vineyard...
...type who worms rather than blusters his way into your life. The movie works the same way. For all its broadly farcical air, Planes, Trains and Automobiles finally seals its bond with the audience in the same way that Martin and Candy seal theirs, with a sly, shy resort to sentiment. Maybe that's just the spirit of the season, but one does not mind indulging...
...miracle drug that will provide a risk-free cure for heart disease. For example, gemfibrozil seems to predispose people to develop gallstones. Moreover, doctors recommend that anticholesterol drugs, including lovastatin, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in September, should be used only as a last resort...