Word: tented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then, Ramirez says, the U.S. military has taken over an additional 5,400 acres of his ranch without paying him anything. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and construction crews from Litton Industries have built an ammunition dump, a mortar range for test firing and a 1,000-man tent camp on his land for the Salvadorans. Ramirez says U.S. Army personnel have twice opened valves to his water lines, causing his meat-packing plant to remain idle for two days because of inadequate water pressure. Green Berets visiting the ammunition dump have left open the cattle gate, allowing...
...other Girl Scouts set up camp at the Château de Marchais, the sprawling Grimaldi estate a few miles north of Paris. For the outing, the princess donned appropriate shirt and kerchief and joined in such camp activities as peeling vegetables, doing the dishes and sleeping under a tent Like everyone else. Said Caroline, who was a real scout until age 15: "It was like a bout of childhood, like going back to being twelve years old again." It could not last, of course. This week she will be back in formal evening dress at her brother Prince Albert...
...soon as Kotaro Nohmura, an executive director of Taiyo Kogyo, an Osaka tent manufacturer, arrives home from work at nearly midnight, he looks in on his four children...
...grabbed hold of a potential piece of business, never let it go, no matter what-even at the risk of your own life.") One piece of business that Nohmura is grabbing involves the $4 billion science and technology fair in Tsukuba in 1985. It will be needing giant tents to accommodate sightseers. The young executive is driven not only by his country's competitive culture but also by family ties. His father is the founder and chairman of the company, which had revenues last year of $106 million. "If I failed to do as well as or better than...
...subject himself to remark, "That record should have been called David Bowie Is Alive and Living Only in Theory. " An album of original songs, Diamond Dogs, with lyrics patched up from fragments à la Burroughs, gave early warning of disaster: "When they pulled you out of the oxygen tent you asked for the latest parties." "I was living these songs," Bowie says now. "I didn't really have to make me like that. I was like that...