Word: storme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stated, both of us, that the world leaves one epoch of Cold War and enters another epoch," Gorbachev said at an unprecedented joint news conference that marked the end of two days of storm-tossed talks held aboard a Soviet luxury liner. "We are just at the very beginning of our long road to a long-lasting peaceful period...
...comes the damage control. Dec. 15 marks the start of the high tourist season, and if tourists do not come back, neither will the islands. More than 10 million visitors came last year, leaving behind $7.3 billion. After Hugo, cancellations poured in, even for destinations not touched by the storm. "Part of our problem is fighting people's terrible knowledge of geography," says John Bell, executive vice president of the Caribbean Hotel Association. "There were groups dropping out of trips to Aruba and Barbados, which were hundreds of miles from Hugo's path." So even as an army of workers...
...islands that felt the storm's full force, the recovery is testimony to luck, resilience and private initiative. Among the few places with electric generators and food supplies, many hotels offered meals, showers and beds to the homeless and to relief workers who had come to help. Four Seasons Hotels sent 27 tons of food, medicine, clothing and chain saws to Nevis, where its new property is still under construction. Cruise ships in St. Thomas ferried stranded tourists out and supplies in. Despite about $10 million in damage, the luxury Virgin Grand resort on St. John was turned into...
...excited, because I knew it was a big goal," said Murphy, who whooped up a storm on the ice after his score. "We had let them back into the game...
Thousands of demonstrators shake the remaining hard-line regimes. -- Could East Germany hold its own in a partnership with West Germany? -- A hotbed of protest in Leipzig. -- Guerrillas storm the capital of El Salvador, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of soldiers, rebels and civilians, and the brutal slaying of six Jesuit priests...