Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...today is also the 23rd Great American Smokeout. Today, all across the nation, the American Cancer Society (ACS) is sponsoring events to encourage smokers to stop smoking, at least for 24 hours, and see how it makes them feel. "Prove to yourself if you can quit for one day, you can quit for a lifetime," say the advertisements. Through a variety of programs, from nicotine patches to counseling, the ACS and its partner within the federal government, a branch of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), are working to make today the first day of a better...
...Parade All-American and the 1998 NSCAA/Adidas New York High School Player of the Year. She played along teammate and fellow freshman Cheryl Gunther on the Northport Piranhas, National Club Champions...
Butler played on state-champion teams Winchester (Mass.) High in 1995, 1997 and 1998 and earned All-Scholastic, All-State and All-New England honors in her last two years. She was also named the 1998 NSCAA/Adidas Massachusetts High School Player of the Year and an All-American...
...Cairo insists, however that American investigators have been too hasty in pointing a finger at the crew. "People here simply don?t buy it," says TIME Cairo reporter Armany Radwan. "That phrase is widely used in a variety of different contexts, and you?d have to know a lot about the individual and his own religious habits before concluding that he was deliberately taking down the plane. It?s widely believed here that the plane was sabotaged, but not by the crew ? and that shifting the blame onto the relief pilot is part of a cover-up." Egypt has sent...
...crew is an uncomfortable prospect for a country whose economy is heavily dependent on tourism. While Washington is prepared to go the extra mile to accommodate Egyptian concerns, Egypt has voluntarily turned over jurisdiction, and the U.S is likely to retain it. "There were a number of Americans on board, and the flight originated at JFK," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon. "Even just one American on board is enough for the U.S. to claim jurisdiction in a case where terrorism is suspected...