Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says it has registered 70,000 white voters in North Carolina who might offset the black voter-registration drive. Each side agrees that the race is just too close to call. Says Helms Press Secretary Claude Allen: "I think it's going to be right down to the wire." -By Jacob V. Lamar Jr. Reported by Joseph N. Boyce/Charlotte
...psychotherapists who might disagree." When all else fails, a common enough occurrence in this narrative, Heller turns to the slapstick of Mel Brooks circa the comedy routine "The 2,000-Year-Old Man" and the film The History of the World-Part I: pointless anachronisms (" 'Send a wire!' I shouted. 'We have no wires,' Jehoshaphat recalled for me") and noises in descending orders of rudeness...
...thaw between Bonn and East Berlin this year has contrasted with the deepening chill between the superpowers. Honecker has seemed intent on pursuing detente despite the U.S.-Soviet deadlock. An unprecedented number of political and cultural delegations have exchanged visits across a barbed-wire border that was virtually impenetrable. So far this year, West German banks have extended credits, backed by Bonn, totaling $330 million to East Germany, which, in turn, has eased some restrictions on travel and allowed more than 30,000 of its citizens to emigrate to the West. Thus, even if the news that Honecker had postponed...
Electricians had to wire approximately 15 percent of Dunster's phone jacks with temporary cables, but they will be replaced with permanent ones later in the year, according to Associate Dean for Facilities R. Thomas Quinn...
...ghetto existed about 75 miles from Warsaw and an eternity away from a deaf, distracted world. Hardly anyone, then or now, ever knew of Lodz. And yet it was there, in the second largest concentration in all of Europe, that some 240,000 Jews were crowded. Within the barbed-wire boundaries a microcosm arose. Children were born, stores were opened, a road constructed, hospitals set up, administrators employed, records kept. It is these records, miraculously preserved in private libraries and underground caches, that provide the first detailed portrait of a Holocaust society. In The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, Editor...