Word: tente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once over the border, the destitute refugees are met by members of a government task force and assigned to sprawling tent cities to begin the painful process of resettlement. With unemployment in Turkey over 15%, the hardest task is finding them jobs. Even after inducing firms to give the uprooted Turks priority, the government has succeeded in providing employment for fewer than...
...Pete Wilson urged George Bush and Baker to name Von Raab drug czar or at least reward him with an ambassadorship. They were rebuffed. But Von Raab's highly public parting shots may soon give Bush reason to wish he had kept his audacious Customs commissioner inside the tent...
...family meets a boy in the Blue Ridge Mountains willing to take a group snapshot. He turns out to be a deaf-mute astrological visionary. High up in the Smokies, the menopausal mother of the family keeps hearing a baby crying out in the woods. After she leaves the tent, the audience hears it too. The family tumbles into its car outside a diner near Amarillo, Texas, and resumes squabbling, only this time father and daughter swap roles and accustomed dialogue, and so do mother and son. The elders squeak about needing a bathroom break. The children trade curses about...
...circuit, a country music band entertained weary walkers as they lounged on Boston Common. The hungry hustled past with hot dogs and Cokes, while others limped to the first-aid tent to tend to their blisters...
...kept running and his legs kept cramping up. After crossing the line around the 3:15 mark, Barnicle was taken to a medical tent and treated...