Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...granting the P.L.O. at least the trappings of real authority, the Israelis did agree to allow armed Palestinian policemen at the border terminals, as well as the Palestinian flag. But that concession did not much impress residents of the territories, who have freely been flying their four-color banner for five months...
...woman in Manhattan dumped a bucket of milk onto a frozen sidewalk. A man in Madison, Wisconsin, dragged white plastic cartons stamped with the skull and crossbones up the steps of the state capitol. Two dozen demonstrators marched in front of Atlanta's Toco Hills shopping center with a banner that read stop the "frankenfood" -- save the cows...
...RAIN TURNED TO SLEET IN WASHINGton last Thursday, a young man stood silently on the sidewalk next to a White House gate, balancing a flagpole from which hung a black banner inscribed POW-MIA. He is a frequent and unnecessary reminder to Bill Clinton that the psychological and emotional turf of a war that took the lives of more than 58,000 Americans is dangerous terrain to a President who did not serve...
...refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and the birthplace of the anti-Israeli intifadeh, Aziz's family and friends raised a tent for week-long mourning ceremonies. A militant wearing a black hood wielded an ax painted red. let slaughtering the jews be our road to paradise, read a banner on the tent. "We are jealous of Anwar," said one of Aziz's friends. "We feel like cowards because we have not yet done the same thing...
...banner year for the gun industry, especially for handguns and self-defense shotguns," says Cameron Hopkins, editor in chief of Firearms Marketing Group in San Diego. "The Rodney King beating and Hurricane Andrew really awakened a lot of Americans to the fact that in catastrophic times, the police won't be there to protect you." Since gun-control legislation has been in the news in the past 16 months, the National Rifle Association says, it has been adding 1,500 members a day: membership has jumped from fewer than 2.5 million in 1991 to almost 3.3 million today...