Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then came yet another thrilling fourth period form the laxmen. As Co-Captain Rob Hawley said. "All our games come done to the wire. All can be decided in the fourth period...
...hiding in jungles, in tunnels, ghosting around in the pre-dawn: killer shadows. They dissolved by day into the villages, into the other Vietnamese. They maddened the Americans with the mystery of who they were--the unseen man who shot from the tree line, or laid a wire across the trail with a Claymore mine at the other end, the mama-san who did the wash, the child concealing a grenade...
...despite the docudramas and paperback page turners with barbed wire on the covers, Wiesel has kept to his private tasks of organizing memory and troubling a deaf world with his cries. Although he has been called the voice of the 6 million killed in the "Final Solution," few of his more than 20 books directly confront the events of Auschwitz. Often they discuss the testamental prophets (Five Biblical Portraits, Messengers of God), ancient legend (The Golem) or contemporary Eastern Europe (One Generation After). His study of the Soviet Union (The Jews of Silence) was a new jeremiad, going beyond...
...York City's Greenwich Village this winter, odd-shaped metal boxes and barbed wire were placed across hot-air exhaust grates to keep homeless people from sleeping in the neighborhood. A center helping the homeless in downtown San Diego burned in a fire classified as arson. And in Santa Cruz, Calif., where vagrants are called trolls, the police brass felt it necessary to warn their officers not to wear TROLL BUSTER T shirts while off duty...
Last week a federal grand jury indicted the flamboyant Democratic Governor on 50 counts of racketeering, wire fraud and mail fraud. U.S. Attorney John Volz charged that Edwards and six associates, including a brother, Marion, and a nephew, had conspired to create 15 health corporations and to illegally acquire state certification that the companies, which existed only on paper, were needed to meet legitimate health needs in Louisiana. The companies would therefore be entitled to receive federal Medicare and Medicaid funds to reimburse them for capital expenditures. After gaining these certificates, the indictment alleges, Edwards and his co-conspirators sold...