Word: border
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...transformed. The millionaire real estate mogul who once described himself as a "head-banging conservative" is suddenly taking his campaign into places where few Florida Republicans have gone before--black churches and schools, Hispanic neighborhoods, condo units full of elderly, staunchly Democratic Jews, and rural counties on the Georgia border, where Republicans are still scarce. In the last go-around, his speeches were about building prisons and boot camps, making abortion illegal, downsizing government and putting welfare moms back to work. This time he talks about promoting economic growth in poor neighborhoods, ways to encourage adoption, privatizing parts of government...
...secretly begun analyzing scenarios depicting how the two nations might stumble into an atomic exchange. It could go like this: Muslim militants in Kashmir, covertly backed by Islamabad, step up their insurgency in the disputed Himalayan territory, where several Indian and Pakistani soldiers already die each week in cross-border skirmishes. India lashes back, sending its troops across the Pakistani border to chase militants. Islamabad retaliates with heavy artillery shelling. Conventional war breaks out and quickly escalates to the point where both sides resort to their nukes, and 15-kiloton, Hiroshima-size bombs are dropped by warplanes or lofted...
...Border Wars...
Administrators say these border conflicts werejust minor "irritations," but their sum lookedlike a war when news spread through the Universitycommunity that Radcliffe was renegotiating thebasis of its relationship with Harvard--andpossibly severing its undergraduate ties...
According to the manager of the Border Cafe onChurch Street, restaurant owners can take severalprecautions to guard against larcenies. Themanager said he tells female patrons not to leavetheir purses dangling over the backs of chairs andwatches for individuals who sit in the restaurantwithout ordering...