Word: binnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this point, I have no plans to do anything but keep making a consistent appeal," Jackson told reporters on arriving at the Charles Hotel, where Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud has been staying since before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait two weeks ago. Jackson, who has ties to a number of Arab leaders, has served as mediator in Middle East disputes in the past...
...Decade might mean the "activist '90s," but activism, by today's standards, is synonymous with environmentalism. Care about the air. Save the trees. This was the first year when people in your dorm yelled at you for tossing a bottle in the garbage can instead of the recycling bin. We're in our unselfish phase, but it is more acceptable to worry about the increasing hole in the ozone layer than to think about, say, shrinking welfare and Medicaid benefits...
Before 1987 the country was off limits to tourists. When he deposed his father in 1970, Sultan Qaboos bin Said took over one of the world's most primitive nations. With revenues from oil, first discovered in 1954, the Sultan superimposed the infrastructure of a modern state on Oman's tribal society. In 1985, celebrating 15 years on the throne, Qaboos hosted a meeting of Arab rulers at the Al Bustan Palace Hotel, a marble-and-tile monument to Arabian opulence on a mountain-ringed bay near Muscat. It was a sort of coming-out party, signaling...
...Qaboos cautiously opened the doors of the sultanate to tourists -- but on a highly selective basis. "We don't want to see hippies with long hair and dirty jeans in any part of the sultanate," said Commerce Minister Salim bin Abdullah al-Ghazali. "We do not want tourism that will destroy our dignity, our habits, our traditions." The government designated local hotels and tour operators as sponsoring agents for tourists and held them responsible for their clients' behavior. To obtain a visa valid for up to three months, a hotel or travel agency must submit a tourist's application...
...time in the last decade that the Crimson hasn't had a 20-win season...Even after playing only half the season, Keven Melrose still finished second in the league in penalty minutes, five minutes behind RPI's Bruce Coles...Harvard spent the second-most time in the sin bin of any team in the league...