Word: beltings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BELT AND THE BUCKLE...
...some, the goal of lifting is increasing the weight one lifts until one has conquered the machine. To others, it seems, the goal is to show off one's presumed strength by strutting the length of the room wearing a huge leather support belt. Most of us fall into neither of these categories, delighted to do what we can when even the smallest amount of weight is a challenge to lift...
...either dead or withering in Fujimori's squalid prisons. Only Hugo Avalleneda, who remains at large, is considered an organizing threat. Fujimori has repeatedly insisted that Peru's widespread poverty does not produce terrorism; instead, he blames terrorists for perpetuating it. Now, with such a dramatic victory under his belt, the President may have to face without excuse what many consider his true Achilles' heel: Peru's top-heavy economy. While inflation has fallen from more than 7,000 percent at the time of his election in 1990 to around 10 percent today, the vast majority of Peru's population...
...want to affirm ourselves as a great economic and political power, equal to the dollar and the yen," the president said, "France must adopt the euro in 1999 and see its budget shrink." The president is gambling on winning early elections before enacting a new round of highly unpopular belt-tightening. Recent polls are not encouraging: One survey reported that 53 percent of the French electorate would vote against Chirac and his party...
Also vulnerable is the floating apron of sea ice that surrounds Antarctica. During the winter, this apron effectively doubles the continent's size, then in summer it shrinks 80%. The interaction of deep ocean currents and sea ice is crucial to the vast "conveyor belt" that redistributes the sun's heat around the globe. For all its importance, however, it is on average less than 2 ft. thick, and its stability depends on a precarious balance of factors ranging from air temperature to the salinity and temperature of the water...