Word: towers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fooled by the two `Gulf' signs that tower over Mass. Ave. across the street from the Harvard Union. Harvard tore down the gas station that went with the signs in December and is expected to announce plans to redevelop the site...
...lines four and six deep in Tallinn to chant a single word: "Freedom!" The invocation was echoed last week all along a human chain, formed by an estimated 2 million people, that stretched from the Estonian capital of Tallinn across Latvia and into neighboring Lithuania to end at Gediminas Tower in Vilnius, some 400 miles from the starting point...
...banned blue-black- and-white flag from the period of independence between the two World Wars waves again above Tallinn's Toompea Castle. Latvia has hoisted its traditional crimson-and-white banner above Riga Castle. In Lithuania the historic yellow- green-and-red tricolor flutters once more from Gediminas Tower in Vilnius. A report from each of the Baltic republics...
...Congress also dealt Bush the two biggest defeats of his early administration by rejecting the president's nominations of John Tower for secretary of defense and William Lucas for assistant attorney general in charge of the civil rights division...
...Congress reconvenes on September 6, and the Senate must review any acting appointments before they become permanent. Given the intensity of the investigations into Tower and Lucas, Bush and his future appointees will probably end up agreeing with Rogers' assessment...