Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning came, the Marines began appearing on the edge of town at Queen's Park, Bishop's favorite gathering place to address his people. The Marines spread out in firing positions alongside tanks and personnel carriers, while Grenadians sat looking back from their front steps on the opposite hillside. A U.S. tank sprang into life, firing into a hill with thick green vegetation, making a direct hit on an ammo dump and an antiaircraft position. One young man who sat watching the scene admitted that he too was once for the revolution. Now, reluctantly, he welcomed the invaders...
Applegate then appealed to the Institute for Policy Studies, a Washington think tank with a history of championing Government whistle blowers...
...lunar speckling of artificially lit gravel-and does it in terms of relentlessly agile movements of a broad brush-is a lesson in decisiveness. It would be hard to think of more fluent paint handling in current art than the set of three views of the tiled tank, named Pool, 1983. One reads it from left to right; each time the eyeline - obviously derived from handheld photos, whose careless tilt is preserved - rises a little more, so that the final image, where one looks almost straight down at the pool bottom, presents a shock like the revelation of evidence...
...university's charter states that the institution "Shall forever be kept out of politics." The Hoover Institution, a Stanford political think-tank, is planning to build a museum. a library, and a center for public affairs named after the president. --The Stanford Daily
...games, the electronics division of Mattel has run a $201 million deficit in 1983, while laying off 37% of its 1,800-member work force. Activision estimated that it lost $3 million to $5 million in the past three months despite scoring hits with its new Enduro and Robot Tank games. At Bally, the leading manufacturer of arcade video machines, profits...