Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...travellers marched through the mud to the Twin River Community Center, which doubled as an emergency shelter, others searched frantically for loved ones...
...Honduran President Jose Azcona Hoyo shattered that arrangement by ordering his air force to strafe the Nicaraguan positions inside the country. Later that day, Azcona summoned U.S. Ambassador Everett Briggs and urgently appealed for U.S. logistical support. President Reagan responded promptly, authorizing an airlift. Last week U.S. troops flying twin- rotor Chinooks and Huey helicopters ferried hundreds of Honduran soldiers to within 20 miles of the Nicaraguan border. At the same time, Honduran pilots strafed targets inside Nicaragua...
...twin deficits -- budget and trade -- have created a historically unprecedented pile of external U.S. debt. America now owes foreign creditors nearly $200 billion, making it the world's largest debtor country. If trade deficits were to continue at their current level, the debt could reach $800 billion by 1991, Feldstein estimated. More ominous, U.S. debt could suddenly hit a critical point at which foreign investors become concerned that their money is concentrated too much in one place. Any sudden loss of confidence, said De Vries, could send the dollar into a steep fall. A plunge in the dollar could ignite...
...senses that these talented performers will miss the much-deserved notority they would have garnered in a more respectable production. Lt. Col. Oliver "Speak no Evil" North is nothing short of remarkable in his portrayal of the dual role of the real American Hero and his evil CIA twin...
...Connally, 69, failed to get out of the starting gate for the 1980 G.O.P. presidential nomination, he returned home with the idea of becoming what Texans call "big rich." He was already worth about $6 million -- cattle feed by local standards. But Big John saw no end to the twin booms in oil and real estate, and aimed to parlay his connections and powerful salesmanship into serious money...