Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spilled out of the Tiananmen area and into other Beijing neighborhoods. Trucks were set afire, and the sound of shooting filled the air. Troops firing from the rooftops and upper floors of Radio Beijing and the Minzu Hotel wounded and killed people who were asleep in their homes. Across town, reporters sighted tanks on the move, some of them firing their cannon indiscriminately down what appeared to be near-empty thoroughfares. Huge blazes swept across residential districts...
What politics he had were the product of his native Niagara Falls, New York, a largely blue collar town known less as a conservative hotbed than as a vacation site and source of gift shop kitsch. Through his father, an ardent Democrat who works in the state's department of labor, Granieri absorbed a suspicion of Republican politics. "When Ronald Reagan was elected president," says the younger Granieri, "I was under the impression it would be the end of the world. My father hated...
...today's conflicts between town and gown seem contentious and bitter, they pale in comparison to the titanic struggle the two giants fought in the fall of 1938. That was the year when the Cambridge City Council voted to "secede" from the University...
...Town News and Nini's in the Square, managers reported that the semi-secret society's latest comedic venture is selling "much better" than most of its previous publications--although it might not outsell the Lampoon's 1987 USA Today parody...
...strikes out against Japanese trade barriers, but critics fear that tough action may rupture relations with a critical ally. -- While most Americans think Tokyo's trading manners are still one-sided, the Japanese argue that they have come a long way from their closed-door past. -- A small Arkansas town welcomes the Japanese invasion...