Word: river
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bodies of two court workers were found in a river in Cali, hands tied behind them, police in the western city said yesterday. Cali is the base of another major drug gang...
...Moscow suburb of Uspensky. Yeltsin claimed that after being dropped off at an intersection in Uspensky by his driver, a gang of men grabbed him, pulled a bag over his head, hustled him into a car and raced wildly around before tossing him off a bridge into the Moscow River. He swam 300 yds. to shore, Yeltsin said, then rested briefly and went to authorities...
...Like a river with multiple tributaries, the San Andreas is associated with numerous lesser faults, among them the Hayward fault, which undercuts Berkeley and Oakland, and the San Jacinto fault, near San Bernardino. Some parts of the San Andreas are more dangerous than others. One segment that lies to the south of the Santa Cruz mountains does not appear prone to large jolts at all. "It just creeps along," says geophysicist Ross Stein of the USGS. "Probably & there's some remarkable material down there that, like talcum powder, acts as a lubricant...
...each river house, the average meal costs between $4.50 and $5.00, but average meals at the Quad cost nearly a dollar more, the report said...
Controlled choice plans are already being implemented in several Massachusetts cities, including Lowell, Fall River and Cambridge. Boston is in its first year of a controlled choice system, and Milwaukee is considering adopting a similar plan...