Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LOCATION Davos is in the eastern Swiss canton of Graubunden, an overflowing but still charming agglutination of hotels and pensions...
Soon Ho was roaming the earth as a covert agent for Moscow. Disguised as a Chinese journalist or a Buddhist monk, he would surface in Canton, Rangoon or Calcutta--then vanish to nurse his tuberculosis and other chronic diseases. As befit a professional conspirator, he employed a baffling assortment of aliases. Again and again, he was reported dead, only to pop up in a new place. In 1929 he assembled a few militants in Hong Kong and formed the Indochinese Communist Party. He portrayed himself as a celibate, a pose calculated to epitomize his moral fiber...
...Public Interest Group. The gap grew to 100%, or $110, when large banks were compared with credit unions. At the NationsBank branch in Woodstock, Ga., a personal checking account costs $10 a month without a minimum balance, while a similar account at the locally owned Bank of Canton costs...
...HARVARD, 3-1 at Canton, N.Y. Harvard 0 0 3 -- 3 St. Lawrence...
...CANTON, N.Y.--They went into the weekend demanding four points for their efforts...