Word: civilations
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...many people with disabilities, the entrepreneurial atmosphere of the 1990s has taken them where so many other Americans are going--into business for themselves. Theodore Pinnock, 36, a San Diego civil rights attorney who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, started his own four-person law practice in 1991. The corporate legal world, he found, was less than welcoming. "The fact that I had a disability and that I am an African American made it very difficult for me to get where I wanted to be in my career," Pinnock says. "I had to work harder than most...
...descent into chaos began on May 25, 1997, when a group of rebel soldiers from the Sierra Leone Army staged a coup d'etat, replaced democratically elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma, and soon allied themselves with R.U.F., the rebel movement that had waged a civil war earlier in the 1990s. Koroma was quickly isolated by some of Sierra Leone's West African neighbors, such as Nigeria and Guinea, which wanted to see Kabbah restored. Last February an ECOMOG military force pushed the junta from power, driving the rebels out of the capital, and Kabbah reassumed...
Pettigrew's brother, Charles, the president of Oaksbranch and a civil engineer, acknowledges that some of the investments, including an industrial property yet to be sold, would be considered high risk...
Planned Parenthood has filed a civil suit against those involved with "The Nuremberg Files" in Portland, Ore., alleging that the site encourages violence against abortion providers and thereby infringes upon the 1994 Federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The case is the first of its kind both because it tests the boundaries of the 1994 Act with the question of whether words on a Web site can have the same deterring factor as physically blocking clinic entrances and because it questions the First Amendment rights of the Internet, asking whether the site is a purely political vehicle...
...monitors were withdrawn, it's not clear that the U.S. and its allies would attack: Many Western observers believe that only ground troops could keep the peace in Kosovo -- and that's a non-starter, since the Western alliance has no appetite for wading into an intractable civil war between the Serb authorities and the independence-minded Kosovar Albanians. And with no firm Western action, Holbrooke's cease-fire will likely melt away with the winter snows. Memo to President Clinton: You may want to drop that "Peace in the Balkans" item from your State of the Union list...