Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particularly nice fellow, and his epic voyage was less than heroic in its details.) Matters then proceed through a number of other diverting incidents, among them the hijacking of a Mediterranean cruise liner by Arab terrorists, Jonah's sojourn in the belly of the whale, the historic wreck of a French ship and the religious experiences of an American astronaut. The localized pleasures in each chapter -- Barnes is both erudite and witty -- are somewhat diminished by the suspicion that the end design will amount to no more than academic playfulness. There is much to savor in this book...
...comes the long work of reconstruction. Engineers say it may take four weeks to repair the Bay Bridge and up to 2 1/2 years to replace the wreck of I-880. Until the repairs are completed, 343,000 commuters will face a traffic nightmare as they are forced to use alternative routes. But the rebuilt structures are likely to be stronger than those they replace -- strong enough, it is hoped, to survive the dreaded...
...Bush will have to hesitate before pulling the trigger. In pursuit of Noriega's demise, we may impose sanctions to wreck Panama's economy (as we have done), we may support a coup, we may even rain bombs on Panama City (though no one is suggesting that). The one thing we cannot do is take him out on purpose. Executive Order 12333, issued by Ronald Reagan, says, "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination." The Bush people claim that this standing order even made...
...first axioms American reporters learn is that a fender bender on Main Street is bigger news than a train wreck in Pakistan. Just as Tip O'Neill crystallized electoral wisdom in his dictum "All politics is local," many editors seem to have concluded that all journalism should be local too. Reportage from distant places tends to be limited to the melodramatic and gauged by personal relevance: either the it-could-have-been-me human-interest factor or the larger-implications factor of how, although the news consumer was untouched by a particular event, similar ones in the future might have...
Russians often see this as an attempt to kick them out of the homes they have inhabited for generations. So they have been hitting back with strikes that, if they persist, could wreck the economies of some republics. And in Moscow, Communist conservatives have seized on the Russians' plight to justify a crackdown on the nationalist movements. News reports in the capital deliver a crude subtext: ethnic Russians are the victims of nationalist extremists. Politburo members like Victor Chebrikov, former KGB chief, thunder that those whipping up ethnic strife "should not go unpunished, no matter what flags they raise...