Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ground-floor delicatessen. According to Clark County Fire Chief Roy Parrish, the blaze may have smoldered for at least an hour before spreading to a catwalk on the next floor used by hotel guards to monitor the gambling in the casino. The flames raced along the catwalk and then swept down and back across the casino. Except for the twelve people killed in the casino, most of the deaths took place on the upper floors, when thick, black smoke mixed with poisonous gases from the casino's burning plastic decorations swirled upward through air ducts, stair wells and elevator...
...last stage of a disease that has been festering for years. Under the Dukakis administration, the governor's choice for T dicrector, Robert Kiley, had begun to make some headway in the attempt to take control of the system away from the powerful Carmen's Union. But when King swept into office two years ago-a victory aided by the support of many in the MBTA unions-he ended that process, and the T again found itself run by a powerful and corrupt labor leadership-so powerful that it exercised near-total control over all manner of MBTA administrative decisions...
...time the plane landed at Andrews Air Force Base that evening, a cold Washington rain was turning to sleet. The Reagans swept into town in a 16-car motorcade. They did not stay at the posh Blair House; that had been booked long before the election for a visit by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Instead they were billeted in a four-story beige brick, mansard-roofed town house at 716 Jackson Place, across Lafayette Park from the White House. One of a row of town houses owned by the Government, the dwelling is used as a residence for distinguished...
Golden autumn sunlight dappled the. freshly whitened south portico of the White House, and a gardener steadily swept at the fallen leaves around the diplomatic entrance. At one minute before 2, the shrieking sirens of an official motorcade split the air, and quickly pomp and circumstance turned into slapstick comedy. The big black limousine pulled up smartly before the red-carpeted doorway. Out popped a beaming Ronald Reagan and his smiling wife...
Four-digit fever has swept Wall Street periodically since Dec. 31, 1976, when the Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrial stocks last cracked the 1,000-point level. But rarely had an assault on the magic barrier been more furious-or inconclusive-than the trading melee that last week nudged the Dow briefly, and by the barest fraction, into quadruple digits...