Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during non-musical scenes, with the extravagant gesticulations of the characters, especially the chorus. During last Friday's production, the show was unexpectedly halted in the middle of the first act by a fire caused by a faulty cable. After a 30-minute delay, with the smell of burnt wire filling the theater, the actors reconvened. The smooth continuation of the play is true credit to the cast and crew, who didn't let the fire break their concentration...
...assembly-line fashion, are nearly finished. Out of a population of 110,000, 2,200 Grenadians have been questioned at a jerry-built camp behind the nearly finished Point Salines airport on the island's southwestern tip. Most prisoners were kept in tents behind snarls of barbed wire, but some were obliged to crawl inside 8-ft. by 8-ft. wooden crates and spend 24 hours there. Finally, last week, Washington ordered the unseemly cages dismantled...
...Weinberger has at his disposal untold millions of dollars that can go toward airing the point of view of the Reagan Administration. Weinberger also has a corps of reporters around him to relay his every thought to the front pages of newspapers, the covers of magazines and the major wire services. The Secretary, in short, has virtually unlimited access to all the major media, a "freedom of speech" not available to most Americans...
Down to the Wire...
...capital investment. Its Bell Laboratories, incubator of the transistor, the laser and Direct Distance Dialing, is the world's foremost industrial research organization. Western Electric makes 80% of all the telephone equipment used in America, including most of AT&T's 827 million miles of copper wire...