Word: townsfolk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here, in a boardwalk caricature, comes the current American dilemma: How much prosperity is too much? This was an easy town to get rich in if you timed things right. But those blessings now carry burdens. The townsfolk have gone from acquiring wealth to managing it--knowing when to cut the right deal and let other ones go by. At Bunting's English Diner, where Mayor Jim Mathias and three of his predecessors gather early to sort through the day's problems, they like to recall how simple it used to be. Back in the '30s, when their fathers came...
...Mart on the edge of town stayed high and dry. The Grand Forks Herald, its offices swamped by relentless Red River tides and then finished off by raging fire, moved to new quarters without skipping an edition and began publishing page-long lists of personal messages phoned in by townsfolk--messages such as "To Mary O'Leary from Vicky Misialek: If you need a place to stay, please call." Same thing on radio. A woman named Marci heard that elfin mayor Pat Owens, elected in a landslide last year after assisting four mayors over 32 years, had fled her house...
...arrived Palestinian soldiers in Jericho when one of them allowed Ammar's 13-year-old brother to handle a loaded AK-47 rifle. It went off, accidentally, and the bullet shattered the younger boy's head. Immediately, local activists of the Palestine Liberation Organization put out a story to townsfolk that withdrawing Israeli soldiers had deliberately left the rifle behind to cause an accident. Later they said that an Arab collaborating with Israel had given the boy the gun, and then that ammunition left by the Israelis had exploded and caused the fatal accident. Only a few hours later...
...everybody in Hudspeth County concurs. Ever since an Oklahoma consortium, MERCO, announced plans to turn the old 128,000-acre ranch into a repository for millions of tons of New York City sewage, local ranchers and townsfolk have worried about toxic pollution spilling into their air, their soil and the waters of the nearby Rio Grande. But overall there was a strong show of support for the project, because MERCO offered 35 jobs and a $10,000 weekly payroll...
...participants arrived at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center, Serbian irregulars subjected the half-ruined Bosnian capital to one of its worst poundings since the siege began more than five months ago. Shells and rockets slammed into the city from hillside emplacements, killing more than a dozen townsfolk and damaging elegant buildings...