Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the car stopped in a southern suburb, Hirst, who had succeeded in removing the blindfold, forced the door open and escaped. "When I ran away, they did not shoot," he marveled. Hirst, who then grabbed a taxi back to town, says he has not decided whether to stay in Beirut...
...later years Paris became a home to exiles from North Africa, including the deposed Algerian President Ahmed ben Bella. Among the Iranian exiles who found refuge there in the 1970s was the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who lived in the dreary suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau. After his triumphal return to Iran, Khomeini chased the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shapour Bakhtiar, out of the country. Where did Bakhtiar go? To Paris, along with a deposed Iranian President, Abolhassan Banisadr...
Michael Pallamary was surveying a construction site in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon last month when he noticed smoke pouring from an apartment house across the street. Vaulting a fence, Pallamary, 32, rushed into the building and, despite thick smoke and intense heat, pounded on doors to alert some 30 occupants. Then he tried unsuccessfully to rescue Tenant Tim Hurley, 19. Finally Pallamary collapsed. When he left the hospital two days later, he was handed a city paramedic bill for $189.93 -- including a 50% surcharge because he lives out of town...
...much flag waving in the music. Too many soft hearts and not enough hard heads. Too many singers opening theme parks. Too much corn, not enough conscience. Hearts all out of the music and onto the sleeves of stage costumes heavy with fringe and rhinestones. Nashville's a suburb of Vegas, and the sweetheart of the rodeo has moved to that notorious drive in Beverly Hills...
Tapie is well qualified to discuss the merits of the new French dream. Creator and manager of the holding company Groupe Tapie, which had profits of $45 million on sales of roughly $1 billion in 1985, Tapie was the son of a pipe fitter in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve. As a teenager he helped support his family by hauling burlap sacks of coal. Tapie first went into management consulting, but soon began starting new companies. His first few ventures failed disastrously, but in the late '70s he suddenly discovered his forte: rejuvenating bankrupt businesses. Thanks to his talent...