Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thousands of shells blasted buildings and crashed into streets, terrorizing the 300,000 remaining residents, who mostly cowered in basement shelters. Sarajevo TV broadcast what appeared to be a military radio message from Serbian General Ratko Mladic, intercepted less than two weeks earlier, commanding soldiers in the overlooking hills, "Burn...
Collor's government stands accused of failing to fulfill some of its most important promises. Many conservation areas and national parks exist only on paper. Cattle ranchers, farmers and miners continue to burn, bulldoze and poison the forests. Brazilian environmental agencies still lack the staff and equipment they need to protect endangered flora and fauna. Foreign funds dedicated to Brazilian conservation efforts languish unused because the Collor government, plagued by corruption and staff turnover, has failed to develop projects that would make use of the money...
...smart drugs." Over the past two years, a growing number of IQ-hungry Americans -- from high school students to octogenarians -- have taken to chemical means of "cognitive enhancement," downing a variety of food supplements and prescription drugs to prepare for tests, prime themselves for business meetings or just burn a little brighter at parties...
...America, student protestors get up andchant carry signs, you know, 'Stop the Gulf War.'Back home in Ghana, students burn cars. Theyprotest anything: cutbacks in scholarship money orgovernment repression...
Most Ivy schools have opted for slash-and-burn tactics. Last fall, Yale cut funding for varsity wrestling, varsity water polo and junior varsity ice hockey. Brown followed suit, cutting its women's gymnastics program...