Word: walling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hanging on the wall of City Manager Robert W. Healy's office is a plaque praising the city for exceptional urban design...
...common element in these cases and in shootings at a high school in Washington and a car dealership in Norfolk, Va., was more than the threat to innocent bystanders. All involved the use of semiautomatic weapons. These fast-firing, powerful guns, capable of sending a bullet through a concrete wall, were once rare outside the military. But when the U.S. normalized relations with China, imports of Chinese weapons as well as other goods became legal. Purchases of the AK-47 copy soared from a mere 4,000 a year as recently as 1985-86 to more than 40,000 last...
...reassure financial markets that he is serious about attacking the deficit, Bush held two hour-long sessions with congressional leaders. His aides knew lawmakers would decline their offer of a full-fledged budget summit with the White House, but the feint did nothing to hurt the mood on Wall Street: the New York Stock Exchange surged all week, closing Friday 87.5 points higher than the week before. Moreover, after years of sleepy meetings with Ronald Reagan, the Congressmen could barely contain their enthusiasm for the more engaged Bush. Many seemed astonished that a President could think and talk extemporaneously...
PRESS: I Was a Socialist for the Wall Street Journal...
...hundreds of people and thousands of farm animals. Some locals were milking their cows when they heard the roar of the quake just after 5 a.m., and were able to escape the approaching mudslides. The small village of Sharora was not so lucky. The town was razed by a wall of mud up to 45 ft. high. With no hope of finding survivors, local officials decided to leave the village entombed. The estimated death toll of the Tadzhikistan quake...