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Word: roading (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bolivia--A remote-controlled bomb exploded on a road yesterday amid the motorcade of Secretary of State George P. Shultz, shattering the window of his wife's car but causing no injuries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bomb Explodes Near Shultz Motorcade | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

Police said the bomb, which they believe was several sticks of dynamite, was detonated by someone on a grassy hill overlooking the road seconds after Shultz's car had passed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bomb Explodes Near Shultz Motorcade | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

Koko Taylor, Grammy award blues performer holds an outdoor concert in the DeCordova Musuem amphitheater in Sandy Pond Road Lincoln at 3 p.m. Sunday. Adults pay $10, and elders and children pay $8. Telephone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT IS TO BE DONE | 8/5/1988 | See Source »

...minors, to $700 to $1,100 a month for both Class A ball and the lowest level of professional baseball, the rookie league. The parent clubs buy equipment and pick up the tab for 75% of the meal and hotel bills when the farm teams are on the road. The expenses add up: most franchises spend between $3 million and $4 million on their minor-league affiliates. The majors pocket none of the profits, but they do get the opportunity to develop, say, a Mark McGwire or a Jose Canesco, both graduates of the Oakland A's farm system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bonanza In The Bushes | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...combat lethal roads, official harassment and wandering bandits, drivers adopt aggressive attitudes, complete with tattoos, earrings and vile vocabularies. They cannot quite disguise the soft hearts beneath their flamboyant T shirts. When an East German family gets stranded on the road in Yugoslavia, it is hauled back home gratis. As the journey concludes, a trucker wistfully remarks, "I was born in the wrong century. I should have sailed with Sir Francis Drake." Perhaps he should have, with Hutchison along to take notes. The world would then know a lot more today about what went on in the 1500s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Diesel Gypsies DANGER - HEAVY GOODS | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

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