Word: burma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very least, it could be good theater. Earlier this month, U.S. Labor Secretary Alexis Herman, in Seattle to drum up support for free trade, was picketed by steelworkers, antinuclear activists, Free Burma advocates--and Anne Kirkham, 26, of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington. "I'm a bicycle activist, but it's all one big thing--globalism, urban sprawl, pollution," she explained. "It's about corporate greed...
Unlike the hard guitar dabblings on past works like his paranoid cover of Mission of Burma's "That's When I Reach For My Revolver," or the insistent dance of his "James Bond" theme, Play is subtler in sound. Moby intricately combines gospel and blues samples with modern instrumentation to form a hybrid of old and new. Songs like the haunting "Why does my heart feel so bad?" and the jaunty "Run On" are distinctly modern yet also contain profound echoes of the past...
...role of the council to deal with fro-yo in Annenberg, or China? With Burma or a student center?" she said at one meeting. "I think the council can do both...
Responding to criticism from student activists at Harvard and across the country, PepsiCo announces it will sell its 40 percent stake in a joint venture in Burma, which has a military regime notorious for human rights abuses...
...American missionary, Sarah Hall Bordman, traveled to the depths of Burma with to spread the word of God. Even after her husband died, Bordman remained in Burma alone with her baby...