Word: baltic
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...tend to forget their country's long history of aggressive expansion under czars as well as commissars. Worse, Russians think the U.S. and other Western powers are reneging on an implied deal. Moscow has done much of what they wanted -- pulled its troops back from Central Europe and the Baltic states, for instance -- only to face continued exclusion from an alliance that now aims to include much of Europe...
Shirley and Earl McNall knew they had one hot little entrepreneur on their hands. Son Bruce was only five, and he could wipe everybody out at the Monopoly board, building hotels on all the expensive properties, leaving his mom stewing with an empty lot, say, on low-rent Baltic Avenue. Dazzled, the mother, a lab technician, and the father, a biochemistry professor at the University of Southern California, rationed Bruce's television watching and showered him with intellectual goodies...
...failure of Euro Disney and the opening of Baltic Disney is the subject of a "News and Notes" brief. Other "News and Notes" briefs announce the arrest of Star Wars robot C-3PO, the love affair between Soon-Yi Farrow and her sister's Ken doll and the rise of Jams-wearing baby shower terrorists...
...hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in the stormy Baltic Sea. It went down at 12:34 a.m. Wednesday, so quickly that only 139 of the 1,051 passengers on board were pulled from the water alive. The few who did not drown trapped in the dark cabins of the stricken ship died of shock and hypothermia in the 50 degrees F water...
...century's worst maritime disasters. Heading across the frigid Baltic Sea from Estonia to Sweden, the passenger ferry Estonia capsized and sank just before dawn on Wednesday. Of the roughly 1,000 people aboard, more than 900 were confirmed drowned. The tragedy, believed to have been caused by water leaking in through the retractable front-loading door, provoked the London-based International Maritime Organization to question the stability of all "roll on, roll off" ferries...