Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barry administration has had an extremely shoddy record of municipal administration. The city's ambulance service casually arrives 20 minutes late at the scene of car accidents and heart attacks. A loan program designed to aid poor families in meeting mortagage payments has mainly gone to aid middle-class families, including members of the Barry administration--most of whom could handily afford the payments...
...track-and-field meet that had already stunned the world with a drug scandal, a bumper crop of new records and some surprising upsets, the scene seemed to be set for Bubka to crash through the barrier. First he assured himself of a gold medal and an Olympic record with a jump of 5.9 meters, which translates into 19 ft. 4 1/4 in. Bubka then had the bar set at 20 ft. 1/4 in., took a look, and put away the dream for another year. "It has been a very long season," he explained. "I am very tired...
...retailers -- including the May department stores, Dayton Hudson and Safeway -- shaken up by his Dart Group (1987 revenues: $406 million), based in Landover, Md., has earned Haft and his eldest son Robert, 35, Dart's president, a reputation as two of the most feared raiders on the roiling retail scene. Just ask the 2,257-store Kroger grocery chain...
...American Scene...
...band's limousine after the show. John tries in vain to explain to a hippie who has invaded his country estate that he didn't mean for his visitor to respond to his songs in such a personal way. "I was just playing with words," he says. The scene is a chilling premonition of John's final encounter with the fan who would kill him, an event depicted in Imagine by a shot of a pair of glasses falling in slow motion to the pavement and shattering...