Word: mile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Witnesses said the Avianca Airlines Boeing 727-100 exploded before it plunged into a hilly area south of the capital, about a mile from a neighborhood of slum houses and factories. Pieces of the jet were found up to six miles from the main point of impact, police said...
Leal said one piece of the jet was found six miles away. The RCN radio network said a body was found a half-mile from the main crash site. Several looters were caught removing. rings and gold chains from the corpses, policesaid...
Karl Marx would have understood their revolt. Just outside Leipzig's jumble of medieval churches and high-rises lies one of the most dismal landscapes in Europe. This is the heart of the rust belt: mile after mile of blackened smokestacks spew sulfurous coal smoke into the yellow sky; workers labor in ramshackle chemical and textile plants under Dickensian conditions of dirt and noise. To the east stretch crumbling tenements built 100 years ago; to the west sprawl ugly new developments virtually devoid of stores, cinemas or restaurants. Average monthly incomes would buy just $30 of goods in the West...
...been coming here as long as I can remember," said Imara Soto as she loaded her two 22-lb. turkeys into her car. Soto, formerly of Cambridge, now makes the 30-mile roundtrip from Burlington each Thanksgiving just to fetch the main course for her family's get-together...
...Mile-long lines of patient first-time voters snaked toward polling booths under a broiling sun last week as Namibia held United Nations-supervised elections that will lead the territory to independence after 74 years of South African control. So great was the enthusiasm that more than 90% of the country's 701,000 eligible voters cast ballots...