Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least ten of the 1,500 small landing craft foundered. One lost 30 men out of 32 aboard. Others took shellbursts and a steady pinging of bullets against the steel sides. Still others collided with the jagged obstacles and barbed wire that the Germans had embedded along the beach. The heavily burdened invaders had to scramble out into neck-deep water, or worse. A number of amphibious craft loaded with artillery turned back. Armored units had an even harder time. Their Sherman DD tanks were outfitted with devices that were supposed to keep them afloat while they lurched ashore...
Officials at Continental were incensed. David G. Taylor, who became chairman last month, denounced the rumors as baseless and threatened to sue wire services that had reported them. The journalists, he said, had spread the gossip without checking the facts. In a highly unusual move, C. Todd Conover...
Comptroller of the Currency and a top federal bank regulator, tried to squash the stories by declaring that the investment positions of Continental's balance sheet "compare favorably to those of other major multinational banks." He also denied a Japanese wire-service story that he was trying to find buyers for Continental in Japan and elsewhere...
...should not frighten people in the East and West again with a new quest for national unity, and finally accept the consequences of a war we instigated with all its horrors." The 800 miles of tank traps, minefields and barbed wire that still separate East from West are a constant reminder that in political terms there are, and for the foreseeable future there will be, two Germanys...
...Fees for all sorts of services usually taken for granted, or not thought of at all by ordinary users, may go up sharply. A house visit to install a phone would go from $10 to $12. The connection to the central office would jump from $25 to $50. Inside-wire hookup would go from $28.50 to $36, and phone-jack installation from $9 to $14. In addition, the company wants 1½%-a-month interest on bills not paid within 30 days...