Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Capitalism in the U.S. is alive and working [April 21], but it is not well. And you can thank the Federal Government for that. It is excessive governmental controls that have killed the goose that laid the golden...
...tomb, the newly unearthed army is just a beginning. The tomb, girdled by four miles of wall, lies under a 150-ft-high tumulus where excavation has yet to start. It may or may not be as rewarding as the dig for the warriors, who can thank grave robbers for their remarkable preservation. Only four years after the death of Shihuangdi, marauders made off with all the bronze weapons the soldiers carried, and set fire to the wooden roof that covered the long rows of the terra cotta army. The roof collapsed and buried the soldiers alive, as it were...
...Reorganized Church marked the sesquicentennial in strict isolation from its larger competitor. Some 18,000 cheerful Reorganized Saints from 34 nations flocked to the domed Auditorium in Independence and sang such special hymns as We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet. On the site, eight blocks from the Harry Truman Library, they expect Christ to return and establish his kingdom...
...Blade: Oh, good and bad, good and bad. Stock market's up, Thank God, but commodities are down, damn it. Unfortunately, my secretary committed suicide, but luckily the boss gave me a promotion...
Outside the airport a large billboard says, in English and French, THANK YOU FOR YOUR VISIT. The latest and biggest package tour to arrive at Kabul Airport looks set for a long visit. The Soviet army has pitched a tent city there. Its equipment includes hundreds of helicopters, scores of giant Antonov and Ilyushin transport aircraft, spotter planes, radar trucks, tanks, artillery, antiaircraft batteries, radio rigs, armored personnel carriers, lines of trucks, gasoline tankers, innumerable smaller vehicles. Huge transports, some in Aeroflot's blue and white paint, others in military silver, come and go. The view from the departure...