Word: walling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Photographer Bill Campbell were trapped for two hours at the downtown cable office under a hail of government mortar and machine-gun fire. All the first aid needed when it was over was for a broken suffered by Campbell in a jump from the top of a court yard wall to reach the safety of the American embassy...
Business, however, ran into a wall. Between April and June, the economy declined at an annual rate of 9.6%, the fastest drop since World War II. But then, with the arrival of summer and the acceleration of Carter's re-election campaign, credit controls were loosened and money became less restricted. The prime rate fell to a low of 11% in July. Yet, after November's presidential election and a new burst of inflation, the Federal Reserve Board once again tightened money, and interest rates began another steep rise, quickly passing the spring's historic interest rate...
...well as of the Beatles, and would not let him play their records in the house. They searched his room, and once, when his mother warned him not to lock his bedroom door, he pried it off its hinges, took it downstairs and leaned it against the kitchen wall. He resisted authority, fought with his younger sister, and ran away from home several times. All the while he identified closely with Lennon, the most rebellious of the Beatles...
...have lost some 100 geologists and geophysicists since the beginning of the year. McMoRan Oil & Gas Co. of New Orleans, for instance, has lured five scientists away from bigger firms since 1977 by offering them stock options of up to 30,000 shares each. The company's strong Wall Street performance has now made all five of them millionaires...
Atlanta's new Georgia Power Co. building, which will be opened early next year, may be the shape of things to come in an era of expensive energy. The south wall of the 24-story edifice looks like an upside-down staircase: each floor overhangs the one below, so that the top of the building sticks out 23 ft. farther than the bottom. This unusual construction helps block out sunlight on steamy summer afternoons, thus reducing the need for air conditioning. But during the winter, when the sun is lower in the southern sky, the warming rays will...