Word: teared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chief export. The government unveiled plans in mid-February for sweeping income tax increases to offset the public-sector deficit, sparking two months of often violent strikes and street demonstrations. Little used to overt dissent, the government responded with force. Police and soldiers broke up protests using truncheons, tear gas and occasionally live ammunition. One schoolboy was shot dead...
...Expo 1992 Universal Exhibition in Seville, Spain. The U.S. Information Agency requested $15 million over three years to help build a display hall. Uh-uh, replied Iowa Congressman Neal Smith, chairman of the House USIA subcommittee: "We are no longer going to construct buildings and then pay to tear them down after only six months." Without funds for architect and construction contracts, warns Marvin Stone, the U.S. commissioner general for the fair, "the project will die this month." Moreover, a snub by the U.S. could jeopardize its remaining military presence in Spain...
Manor House staff said that the hotel will likely remain for a longer haul then was initially planned three years ago, when the site's developer, Carpenter and Co., announced their intention to tear the building down and replace it with a complex of shops and offices...
...Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" The demand was made by Ronald Reagan as the then President addressed West Germans at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987. With Gorbachev's acquiescence, if not encouragement, the deed was done. Last week Reagan stood beside a three-ton chunk of the Berlin Wall, 9 1/2 ft. tall and 3 1/2 ft. wide, and called it "an unnatural, ugly, unwelcome, undeniable symbol of the oppression of communism...
...Bomber (Airport, Barber shop, Car wash, Drug store . . .) and spouse, were electrocuted together long before he turned teen. He's Wade Walker, and when the world that has branded him a juvenile delinquent weighs too heavily on his high school hellcat soul, his eye moistens with a single salty tear. So the kids call him Cry-Baby. Says Wade defiantly: "That's Mr. Baby...