Word: vans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Center performed a similar investigation about 10 years ago, when Van Gogh's "Shoes" was on display at the Fogg. In the laboratory upstairs, researchers found that a vase of flowers had been painted under the surface of the work...
...least 37 states, some highways were becoming unsafe at any speed. In La Porte, Ind., a sniper fired at an 18-wheeler, missed, and hit Schoolteacher Chris Balawender, 35, in the hip while he was driving a van loaded with eleven children. He managed to keep the vehicle under control, averting a major tragedy. One driver in Tampa, Fla., roused by fellow truckers, awoke in his cab's sleeping compartment to find his trailer engulfed in flames. To protect themselves, many truckers traveled only by day, and then only in convoys. At night, drivers jammed rigs into crowded truck...
...battered and overloaded Toyota van waiting at the border between Nigeria and neighboring Benin was the unintentionally ironic sign NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT. The statement was all too true for the score of Ghanaians packed inside, and for as many as 800,000 of their countrymen who had suddenly been ordered to leave Nigeria. By truck, boat and plane, they streamed out of the country last week, carrying what possessions they could. Many of them were hungry and sick. All of them were hurrying to meet the Feb. 1 deadline for their expulsion. Along the way, at least 34 participants...
...replaced sooner or later. This year will not be a great one for Detroit. But at last there seems to be cause for believing that good times, if not around the next bend, could be around the one after that. - By John S. DeMott. Reported by Bruce van Voorst/New York and Paul A. Witteman/ Detroit
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