Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill, which marks the first time in almost 350 years that Cambridge has been allowed to regulate Harvard's growth and land-use policies, almost disappeared in the yearly rush to adjourn...
...every shop and factory, red-and-white Polish flags fluttered in the faint breeze off the Baltic Sea, giving Gdansk the festive look of a holiday. But traffic was only a trickle of the normal midday rush. At high noon on a working day, the streets were almost empty of people. The only crowd converged on the Lenin Shipyard, the center of the strike and the focal point of the nationwide crisis. TIME Eastern Europe Correspondent Barry Kalb visited the strike scene...
...uncontrolled gold rush turns into a government project...
...rush to the mountain has actually been a sprint. Last January, after coming across traces of alluvial gold on his land, Farmer Genesio Ferreira da Silva hired a geologist to investigate whether there was a larger deposit. Word leaked out, and within a week 1,000 prospectors had descended on the farm. Five weeks later, there were 10,000 on Fer-reira's property and another 12,000 near by. Huge nuggets were quickly discovered, the biggest weighing nearly 15 Ibs., worth more than $108,000 at the current market price. "If we could have only kept the secret...
...rush to the mountain has actually been a sprint. Last January, after coming across traces of alluvial gold on his land, Farmer Genésio Ferreira da Silvia hired a geologist to investigate whether there was a larger deposit. Word leaked out, and within a week 1,000 prospectors had descended on the farm. Five weeks later, there were 10,000 on Ferreira's property and another 12,000 nearby. Huge nuggets were quickly discovered, the biggest weighing nearly 15 lbs., worth more than $108,000 at the current market price. "If we could have only kept the secret...