Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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. Tens of thousands of people in the ancient capital of Xian blocked roads and held anti-government demonstrations. Xian radio said the unrest had "seriously wrecked the city's life."
It is a feeling Hiwot, and everybody else, had better get used to. The U.S., and much of the world, is in the midst of a sweeping technological conversion, replacing human secretaries and operators with a new kind of high-tech wizardry known variously as automated answering systems, voice-messaging...
"Here you can do as you diddly darn," says Gerry Bloomquist, 65, a retired dress-shop keeper from Minnesota who is wintering in the outskirts of Quartzsite, Ariz. She sips a drink, relaxing in front of her 33-ft. Holiday Monitor recreation vehicle, or RV, in a lawn chair set...
Officials said tens of thousands of workers hadnot gone to work in Beijing and people wereflooding into Beijing by the thousands to supportthe strike
Moreover, the physicists challenged the Utah team's heat measurements, saying they were probably faulty because the solution in the setup was unstirred, the temperature was not uniform and the thermometer was placed in a "hot spot." That conclusion moved Stanford physicist Walter Meyerhof to turn poetic. Said he: "Tens...