Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City Council bogged down in an acrimonious debate over building code violations by an out-of-town developer, then voted to honor former Vice Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro and to cooperate with neighboring towns to shelter the homeless...
...rain outside was no more than a hum to those crunched in the hard pews. The first to show that morning had been Earl Hendricks, the local political expert in this small town of five gas stations and half a movie theater (there were only shows on Friday and Saturday). Earl was in the front row, double-chin set and eyes lowered to watch Jackson ready himself for his speech...
...speech. It was certainly advertised in the town paper as such. Nowadays, Jesse only gives sermons to Black congregations. He must figure that whites want something a little more structured, whether it was Sunday...
...army also said a 20-year-old Arab man was electrocuted while trying to attach an outlawed Palestinian flag to a power line in the West Bank town of Tulkarem. Arab journalists said soldiers shot the youth...
...they are well suited to the teetering pass through the Sierra Nevadas and the run through the ruddy shadow of the Rockies. The California Zephyr route takes passengers past places they would normally miss -- like Thompson, Utah, where the presence of the train doubles the size of the town. And the Ruby Canyon, the throat-tightening Donner Pass. For additional company, there are bald eagles, elk, prairie dogs, deer springing up alongside the tracks at twilight as the car slides past, cameras flashing from the windows. Even a bored 15-year-old cannot maintain her sangfroid in the face...