Word: acquirees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hints of the fury that struck East Timor had been apparent since January. When Habibie unexpectedly offered locals a referendum on independence, militia groups who wanted continued ties with Jakarta began to organize and acquire guns. Even before the vote, independence campaigners were intimidated and dozens killed. Although the militias...
Katie Buffett has joined a growing, albeit still elite, list of Americans who have opted out of the joys of flying with commercial airlines. She recently bought a share in a private plane because her favorite nephew told her it would be a good idea. The nephew, billionaire investor Warren...
I wouldn't be willing to say for certain, though, that the sudden prominence of so many peach-fuzz millionaires has not raised the angst quotient among the parents of my younger friends. Twenty years ago, baby boomers were written about as if every one of them had as a...
Not content with disturbing the peace in the glitzy Hamptons, the Clinton juggernaut is setting up shop in the almost equally tony Westchester town of Chappaqua. The First Family announced Thursday they?d paid $1.7 million to acquire a five-bedroom house built in 1889, giving Hillary Rodham Clinton a...
Wisconsin and Illinois have a new border problem: transplant wars. Wisconsinites, fearing new federal rules will let Chicago hospitals take a disproportionate share of donated organs, are leading a group of states--including North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota--in trying to exclude Illinois from a new organ-sharing network...