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Word: cameroon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent years, the world has become a brutally hard place to be a gorilla. Although there are still more than 130,000 gorillas in the Congo basin, they are being killed and crowded out at an alarming rate. By one estimate, 800 gorillas in Cameroon ended up as "bush meat" last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Gorillas | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...trains. That's because the U.S. targeted for tariffs 17 European exports chosen to "gain the most leverage" over European protectionists. How? Mainly by targeting the British, French and Italians, who have pushed to restrict Latin bananas and to favor those grown in former European colonies, like Martinique and Cameroon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banana Wars | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

MOST CORRUPT 1. Nigeria 2. Pakistan 3. Kenya 4. Bangladesh 5. China 6. Cameroon 7. Venezuela 8. Russia 9. India 10. Indonesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jun. 10, 1996 | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

Sugar Creek Elementary is a French-immersion school. An integrated teaching staff of native French speakers recruited from France, Belgium, Canada, Haiti, Egypt and Cameroon keep the children speaking only French, from the Pledge of Allegiance ("Je declare fidelite au drapeau des Etats-Unis...") through recess to the end of the day. The kids even talk out of turn in French. "They're so eager to learn everything, they pick it up like a sponge," says kindergarten teacher Janet Lawrence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE END OF INTEGRATION | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...play a major role in ground-breaking research. Or you may never meet a professor. You may publish poetry. Or travel to cameroon. Or try LSD. You may fall in love with someone and spend the next four years together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So You're Going to Harvard... | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

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