Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alcohol policy was really all things to all people. It gave the administration the ability to hide behind a shield of having a stated policy. It gave the students an opportunity to drink at college events. And it sure didn't hurt the poor guy in the Zone who sells fake IDs. 'Emergency identification cards' one of the signs reads. Sure is an emergency when you're stuck at a Leverett keg party and someone asks...
...cinematic charisma and unaffected behavior, as Goodgame discovered when she drove him to his car from a photo session at the beach. She became so involved in talking and listening to the music thumping from her tape deck that she was soon doing 60 m.p.h. in a 35-m.p.h. zone. "A motorcycle policeman pulled her over," says Goodgame, "and I anticipated an Oscar-winning performance." But instead of blandishing smiles, Ringwald soberly admitted speeding and took her citation. "As she wheeled back into the traffic," Goodgame says, "I asked why she made no appeal. 'Because I was speeding...
...Dodge in the red zone?" McNeely inquired...
...group of reporters to visit Kiev. They met with Ukrainian Premier Lyashko, who said that a total of 84,000 people had been evacuated from the general vicinity of the plant. The area was cleared in two stages, Lyashko said. The initial move took place within a six-mile zone around the plant that authorities later extended to 18 miles. He added that 230 teams of Soviet medical workers were working outside the cordoned-off sector to aid evacuees...
...special barracks, and many probably died from intense doses of radiation. Sometime after Tumerman's visit, Soviet authorities seem to have completely given up on the region, evacuating all farmers, destroying their houses and fencing the area off with barbed wire. Finally, officials decided to use the devastated zone as a radiological training ground for army troops...