Word: turning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spoke in turn about their campaigns, agreeing that this year's race has been difficult...
...wait, what's this? The NBA turned around and told the Charlotte Hornets, "It's your turn this year to wallow in the mire of the Midwest Division cellar and rack up tremendous travel expenses playing three games on the road at Pacific Division opponents." I guess that's the thanks they get for leading the league in attendance in their first season of existence...
...from international reinsurers -- Lloyd's of London is the biggest -- which protect insurers against catastrophic losses. Still, the earthquake claims, coming less than a month after the devastation caused by Hurricane Hugo, could set off a chain reaction. Reinsurers might become reluctant to continue backstopping American insurers, which in turn would write fewer policies and raise premiums -- and not just on earthquake insurance...
...hodgepodge." Committee spokesman James Currie added that conducting any high-risk covert operation just before a presidential election could unduly and unpredictably influence the election if the operation became public. Said Currie: "No matter what side you're on, you probably don't want to let a U.S. election turn on that kind of crap shoot, especially if there's no reason it has to be done right then...
Earlier in the week six independent opposition groups had called for "quiet and solemn celebrations" throughout the country on the anniversary. Officials, fearing that the unauthorized gatherings could easily turn into giant antigovernment protests, sought to block them. To make sure that shops were well stocked during the week before the anniversary, authorities released onto the market large supplies of normally unobtainable imported bananas and oranges. "They continue to dangle these things in front of the populace as an incentive for political acquiescence," said a Western diplomat in Prague. "But it is clearly becoming harder and harder for them...