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Amid his rhetoric about growth and innovation, Bush also emphasized importance of risk taking. He told Teradyne of his entree into the work off-shore oil drilling. Bush and backers sank millions of dollars invasive rig. which promptly vanish a hurricane...
...garment district, one of the few sources of jobs for Cuban newcomers. Says he: "When I came to Miami in 1960, I didn't speak any English. I had no money and no job. I started as a sweeper, cleaning the factory." After mastering various industry skills, Acosta sank his savings into a garment- cutting service in 1967 and parlayed that into his first clothing line three years later...
...full scope of the tragedy sank in, the people of Bangladesh rallied to recover. In the commercial areas of Dhaka and in other towns and cities spared by the storm, students energetically collected money for the homeless, while devout citizens offered gaibana janaza, or prayers for the unburied dead. Government employees contributed a day's pay to help the destitute, and banks and private companies pitched in with relief efforts of their...
...Titanic sank a couple of years before we came along in spite of Marconi's invention of wireless a few years earlier. I entered the world just before Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated at Sarajevo, triggering the Guns of August. The Model T Ford was slowly replacing the horse and electric refrigeration and oil heat were unknown in the household. The New York Central Railroad ran from New York to Albany and the Boston & Maine from Boston to Lowell in less time than they take...
With that, relations between the U.S. and the Sandinista government sank to a new low. The change came at the stroke of a presidential pen, under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The law allows the President to impose sanctions without congressional approval on declaration of a "national emergency...