Word: wayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arriving fire fighters finally managed to pry Cathy loose. Then doctors who had rushed to the scene from Oakland hospitals made a tough decision. "The mother is in the way, O.K.?" said intern Daniel Allen. "We're going to take a chain saw through the body to get to him." Even after that macabre operation, the boy was still trapped. Only when trauma surgeon James Betts amputated his right leg could Julio be freed. "He was moving and crying out," Betts explained later. "We couldn't just leave him there...
...continuing exodus of refugees to the West and the growing clamor of the stay- behinds for reform at home. At the same time, the two Politburo members in charge of the economy and mass media also lost their posts, signaling that a more extensive housecleaning might be under way...
...buildings went up, all bigger and stronger than the 28,000 that had burned. San Francisco's assessed evaluation was half again as much as it had been. In 1915 the city sponsored the spectacular Panama-Pacific International Exposition. In only nine years, San Francisco had bounced all the way back...
...Griggs returned to his apartment downtown, he found that his wife Jean had broken out candles and flashlights and filled tubs and basins with water. Says Griggs: "We've spent 14 years in the Third World on assignment for TIME, and you presume power and water failures as a way of life in many places...
...industry is so busy talking inside baseball that it has forgotten the customers. They're thoroughly confused by all this alphabet soup," says James Morris, a computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In many cases, he says, customers are postponing purchases until one format emerges dominant, the way VHS surpassed Beta as a videocassette standard...