Word: banners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finding himself one moment a rebel, the next the de facto ruler of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi allowed himself a wry comment during a press conference in London last week. Asked about the banner hanging behind him, a red flag emblazoned with the image of an AK-47, the modern guerrilla's weapon of choice, the leader of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front smiled. "I suppose we won't use the Kalashnikov anymore," he said, giving voice to widespread hopes that the decades of civil war in Ethiopia were finally over...
...towns like Fresno and once sleepy agricultural centers like Visalia in California's San Joaquin Valley have become some of the fastest-growing cities in the West. In the process, the & pristine air has been fouled by smog. And what does that make many residents think of? Answers a banner headline in the San Francisco Chronicle: SAN JOAQUIN HAS SEEN THE FUTURE -- AND IT LOOKS LIKE...
Ramos now says he didn't intend to butcher "The Star Spangled Banner" that night. And he certainly didn't intend to be dismissed summarily from his job as announcer for the women's basketball team as a result of his performance...
There will come a day when the keeper of the University shall tremble, and the strong shall bow themselves, and those that look out of the windows shall be impressed, and the banner shall be loosed, and the golden ring shall be worn...
Harvard won me over--me, the student who threw a fit when the first--year rooming group had the pretentiousness and gall to hang a Harvard banner in the common room...