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Word: availible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawn chairs across the farm, a one-story house surrounded by 30 lightly wooded acres. Many proudly display photographs of the sun -- fuzzy oval images, blazing auras, starlike bursts -- snapped on previous visits. Some read the free literature in a small bookstore, purchase OUR HOLY MOTHER sweatshirts or avail themselves of the portable toilets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Heavenly Host In Georgia | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

HUMANITARIAN SUPPLIES FROM TURKEY WERE ARRIVing at Sarajevo's airport, an occasion that called for an official reception. Because the road from the capital is frequently under fire, Bosnian Deputy Prime Minister Hakija Turajlic chose to travel by U.N. convoy. The precaution was of no avail. En route back to town, the convoy was halted by 40 Serb irregular troops. After 90 minutes, his captors shot Turajlic, a Muslim, seven times in the chest and head through the open door of the U.N. armored car, in the presence of five French peacekeepers. He died at U.N. headquarters, the first high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Civil War To Assassination | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

...finance their own arms purchases from the sale of timber and gems in areas they control along the border with Thailand, which with Thai assistance they have savagely pillaged at great cost to the environment. The U.N. Security Council has imposed sanctions on the Khmer Rouge, to little avail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia: the Un's | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

...wrong people are hurting, to no avail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

Some seek outside help, but often to no avail. "I spent my whole childhood trying to get help, and none ever came," says Roy Rowe, 19, who last year was sentenced to four to 12 years for killing his stepfather. Neighbors in Vestal, New York, sometimes called the police when the screams grew too loud from the beatings -- with a paddle, a belt and a two-by-four -- that Roy's stepfather gave him, his younger sister and brother, and his mother. Teachers reported their suspicions of abuse; relatives tried to intervene. But each time, police officers and social workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Kids Kill Abusive Parents | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

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