Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...free advice from colleagues who have survived previous recessions. Washington hairdressers report that business is down: in hard times, people let it grow. And as long as the nation is stuttering toward war, there is no predicting when the job market will open up again, or prices stabilize, or tension ease...
...small but ominous indication: Colonel Ivan Chernykh, commander of the Soviet army garrison in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda, a hotbed of tension between ethnic Russians and Lithuanians, sent soldiers toting submachine guns to patrol city streets and gave them authority to check documents and arrest civilians. This escalation gave weight to rumors that Moscow planned a military crackdown on the rebellious Baltic republics and prompted a protest from the Lithuanian government to Gorbachev that the actions of the Soviet army brutally violate the human rights of ((Lithuanian)) citizens...
...High-tension electric transmission lines. Strung along high towers, these lines carry large amounts of electricity over long distances. Homes, schools and playgrounds should not be built anywhere near them...
...current projects are only the beginning. "The real potential lies farther and deeper offshore," says Roger Abel, Conoco's general manager for production engineering. "The big easies have all been found." Shell is investing $1.3 billion to build and install a tension-leg platform some 411 km (255 miles) southeast of Houston that will retrieve oil from a world-record depth of 872 m (2,860 ft.). Called Auger, the giant is scheduled to begin producing from 32 wells in 1993. Shell has also drilled an exploratory well at a 2,300-m (7,500-ft.) depth, and Mobil...
When Street Beat first set up shop, the staff approached the local police stations and hospitals to announce their presence and to seek advice and assistance. Out on the street there was initial tension with the pimps, who felt threatened by any aid to their workers. But that quickly changed. "We have made the point that we are looking out for their kids," says Russo. "We are keeping their stable clean...