Word: flee
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...A.N.C., which has turned the green hills of Natal province into South Africa's worst killing field. Since Mandela's release in February, Buthelezi's supporters have repeatedly invaded A.N.C. strongholds with shotguns and pangas. The upsurge in violence has left some 350 dead and forced 7,000 to flee...
...card no peek, while waiting for the fuzz to arrive. In between dealing hands and looking for ways to cheat, Brett Langenderfer, 27, of Woodbridge, Va., explained that he was pretending to be wanted on a charge of interstate theft. When the agents stormed the building, Langenderfer tried to flee down a back stairway. "They call me the 'Rabbit' because I always run. It really gets the adrenaline going when the cops arrive, almost like rushing out of the locker room for a big game...
...country's 14 other republics and who complain bitterly that Moscow has not done enough to protect them against ethnic violence and discriminatory new laws. At a patriotic meeting in Leningrad three weeks ago, cries of "Throw out the government!" greeted a man who had been forced to flee the Azerbaijan capital of Baku after he described how he and other Russians were being isolated at special settlements outside Moscow...
...unification. The immediate aim of the monetary union is to stanch the East German stampede to the West, which continues at the rate of 2,000 a day. The theory is that if Easterners were more confident about their country's economic future, they would be less prone to flee. The first step in that process is to replace East Germany's funny money with West Germany's stable, convertible currency...
...suffered another blow last week when the credit-rating agency Moody's suddenly downgraded some debt issued by RJR Nabisco, which went private in a $25 billion buyout last year. The RJR securities had been viewed as among the most solid junk bonds. But investors were quick to flee; in two days, many RJR bonds lost $200 for each $1,000 of face value...