Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have inspired a creative breed of architects and builders who are capitalizing on the challenge of building facilities that provide the kinds of living spaces that officers can properly manage. "Besides requiring fewer officers to run," argues Rufo, these New Age facilities "cut down on fights, assaults, vandalism and workmen's compensation cases. Most important, they take control of the prison out of the hands of the inmates...
...Hollywood. But to state that the plot concerns a bride and groom is like saying that Moby-Dick is about fishing. Bradbury's latest effort is really a fond look back at his year of living dangerously. That was the time when hangovers, lies and fatigue were balanced by workmen's compensation: good talk, new friends and material for the most entertaining book in a distinguished 50-year career...
...without delay or regret. He did the things a lot of dreamers do: he bought language tapes, a 200-year-old house, a Citroen deux chevaux, and resolved to write a novel. But the renovation of ancient stone and the crafting of new fiction do not mix; each day workmen banished Mayle to a succession of chalky corners. So what could he do with his time except make his fortune -- by chronicling the scene around him in irresistible prose...
...people to weep for Mengistu, whose brutal 14-year dictatorship -- the last hard-line Marxist-Leninist regime in Africa -- had turned his nation of 51 million people into a wasteland of famine and internecine fighting. In the streets, hundreds celebrated the tyrant's departure, cheering as workmen dismantled a huge bronze statue of Lenin in one of the capital's main squares. The Israeli government took advantage of the confusion to launch a massive airlift of some 14,000 Ethiopian Jews who had fearfully gathered near the Israeli embassy (10,000 had been rescued during a famine in 1984). Using...
...blaze is likely to rekindle the debate over the fate of the new embassy building nearby, which was deemed unusable in 1985 when U.S. security experts discovered that the structure was riddled with electronic listening devices planted by Soviet workmen. Congress has been unable to agree on whether to tear down the building, which has already cost taxpayers $300 million, or to build a spy-proof addition atop the existing structure. Now the embassy has no home at all, and the staff has temporarily set up offices in auditoriums on the 13-acre compound...