Word: cliffes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fiction. For all their affluence, or their pained lack of same, his chief characters hunger for a code of conduct or a framework of beliefs that will make sense of their lives right now, a blink before the millennium. At its heart, A Man in Full is a cliff-hanging morality tale...
...ganga, the night atmosphere in Negril has quite a different feel. The beach at Negril fills with beach bums, hustlers, and prostitutes who, mixed with the tourists, listen to reggae and puff joints, a scene more than one suburban teenager has imagined while listening to Marley or Jimmy Cliff. The most ubiquitous dealer on the beach goes by the name of Doctor Fabulous. "Da Doctor" is a self-assured smooth talker, a "Rastafarian who smoke da ganga anywhere, anytime." Along with his potentsmelling crop, Fabulous deals out lines like "Da doctor needs his patient," and "I am da backbone...
...that kind of waste when foreign capital was pouring in. But now, with the global financial crisis sucking hundreds of millions of dollars out of Brazil each day, the Joy Train, whose payrolls burn up a surreal 70% of all public revenue, threatens to pull the nation over a cliff...
...granite promontory that dominates the dramatic skyline of Cape Town, is a time-honored way of ushering in the New Year. As 2000 approaches, the 3,500-ft. mountain will sport a new look: the giant image of a clock face will be projected onto the front of the cliff, with the city's inhabitants and summertime visitors able to count down the minutes to the millennium...
...irony of his comment was two-fold: first, a Democratic Speaker in a largely Democratic state should not be worried about a liberal agenda, and second, Scott Harshbarger is hardly a radical liberal dragging the party over a cliff. He favors an increase in education spending, but given the immense budget surplus we've enjoyed this year, his plan is not too far-fetched. Finneran, on the other hand, is almost Republican in his fiscal policies. Most notably, in July he quashed a bill which would have raised the minimum wage by 90 cents an hour. The bill had Democratic...