Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many stockholders lost a great deal of money in October's financial disaster, but not everyone went bankrupt and few intend to advertise their losses by changing their lifestyles. They learned that there are better ways to protect earnings than a stock portfolio--precious metals don't disintegrate or disappear like paper profits. Real estate from Manhattan to Malibu will become the most popular goods on the market...
...would rip this cancer out of the cities. If drugs were legal, the Government could regulate their sale and set a low price. Addicts could get a fix without stealing, and a lack of profit would dismantle the booming criminal industry that now supplies them. Drug gangs would disappear as bootleggers did after the repeal of Prohibition; with them would go the current, pervasive corruption of police officers, lawyers, judges and politicians bribed by drug money. Drug dealing would no longer seem to be the only way out of the ghetto for underclass youths. Says Mayor Schmoke: "If you take...
After clinching the Republican presidential nomination in mid-March, George Bush seemed to disappear from the national stage. That low profile was fine with the cautious half of his campaign team. "The public isn't focused on the election yet," declared Bush's pollster, Robert Teeter. "This is a time for unifying the party, planning the convention, developing positions and reaching out to new groups...
...some instances, the youngsters simply disappear, slipping into the drug underworld for months at a time. Says Michael Sinnott, a Wayne County, Mich., juvenile-probation officer: "People have been walking in saying their kids ran away. But the kids are in the community. In effect, the parents are being told by the children, 'I can't tell you what I'm doing or where I am because if I do, your life may be in jeopardy.' These are eleven-and twelve- and 13- year-olds...
After splitting a pair of doubleheaders with Columbia Saturday and Army Sunday, the Crimson saw its hopes for the Eastern League (EIBL) crown disappear...