Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Three years ago, Israel?s opening of a tunnel entrance near Muslim and Jewish holy sites sparked fierce confrontations throughout the West Bank, in which 50 Palestinians and 15 Israelis were killed. Last January, Israeli police deported members of a Denver-based Christian group who had allegedly been planning to provoke violence in Jerusalem so as to instigate a war between Jews and Arabs that they believed would precede the Second Coming. "Many Christians take the millennium as a signpost for the Second Coming, and that?s increased the immediate tension over the Temple Mount," says Van Biema. "The Israeli...
...THERE A PART FOR HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN...
...even a salute to the finger waggers and Jeremiahs, who remind me of Vera Carp of Tuna, Texas. She used to say, "You will act like a Christian, or I will slap the snot...
...Anytime children are involved in a horrible accident such as this one," says TIME Detroit bureau chief Nichole Christian, "there?s an emotional connection that tends to drive the price up." But in the end, it is hardball negotiations that usually fix the final price tag, she says. This is precisely what happened in GM?s last major product-liability setback. In February 1993, a Georgia jury slapped General Motors with a $105 million verdict for having designed its C/K pickup trucks with sidesaddle gas tanks, which the plaintiffs claimed made the vehicles prone to explode during side crashes...
Along the city's broad boulevards lined with exquisite edifices, waiters balancing silver trays of champagne and espresso cups bustle among outdoor tables set under tasseled awnings, tipped at just the right angle. One after the other appear countless fashionable boutiques selling Givenchy, Christian Dior or one of France's many other high-profile designers, perfumeries into which saunter ladies who would be at home in the pages of Vogue magazine and hair salons whose attendants dawdle at the door with an insouciance that Marlon Brando would envy. Even the chestnut trees on the elegant Champs-Elysees hang their branches...