Word: roundups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hardest hit was an area near the town of Roundup (pop. 2,119) in southeastern Montana, where 37 homes were destroyed by a blaze that began in the arid Bull Mountains, sending up columns of smoke that drifted into Billings, 30 miles to the south. "It sounded like a jet engine coming through," said Dana Lynam, 34, after a wall of flames attacked her house and melted nearby mobile homes and autos in minutes. Lynam and some 500 others throughout the state were evacuated in time to escape the flames...
...press wondered why the U.S. Government declined to do what the Kremlin would not hesitate to do: simply dispatch the pesky protesters to some remote place for the duration of the Games. Indeed, many foreigners do not quite understand that U.S. civil liberties protections would rule out such a roundup of trouble makers. Soviet editorialists suggested an untoward affinity, even close links, between the L.A. protesters and the U.S. "ruling circles." Last week the Reagan Administration emphatically denied any affiliation. Balsiger had dispatched several letters and Mailgrams to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver last winter, urging that...
...Your roundup of proposed ways of making the federal tax structure fairer and more productive, "Tax Ideas from Flat to VAT," is incomplete. The House Ways and Means Committee has before it my progressive consumption-tax proposal (H.R. 4442). The consumption tax would drastically reduce the number of exclusions, deductions and credits that now make the Internal Revenue Code a cabala for tax lawyers and C.P.A.s. It would allow the deduction of all savings and investments, on the theory that people should be taxed on what they take out of the national economy by way of consumption...
...parents of the youths, all of whom are Black, have alleged that the Cambridge Police Department arrested their children in an arbittary roundup of Black youths and treated them harshly when they were booked...
...given the noncommercial Public Broadcasting Service a chance to top its giant rivals: last week Anchors Robert MacNeil and James Lehrer doubled up their MacNeil-Lehrer Report, a nightly half hour on some single topic that was the most widely viewed program on PBS, into a multi-issue roundup, The MacNeil/Lehrer Lehrer NewsHour. Though envious, the commercial networks applauded. Said NBC News President Reuven Frank: "We hope the hour is so successful that we are forced to emulate...