Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although he "heard an extremely loud boom andsaw a black cloud of smoke," Howell said he had noidea of the extent of the destruction until hewent outside with a co-worker...
These clashing interests and interesting clashes all converge in a nefarious scheme to mine gold in the world's largest remaining virgin cloud forest, in Costa Rica. Left battles right, state clashes with university, and faculty members pummel one another in front of TV cameras. Some of them see the campus as a marketplace, some as a battlefield, some as a pickup joint and some as a "passing microclimate." None of them think it may be a place of learning. As Smiley notes wryly of one academic, "The well-known reluctance of midwesterners to talk about actual sums of money...
...Senate unanimously confirmed former Kansas Congressman Dan Glickman as Agriculture Secretary. He replaces Mike Espy, who left under the cloud of an independent-counsel investigation into charges that he had received favors from companies under his purview...
...There wasn't a cloud in the sky all week," Tseng said...
...cult had conceived a disquieting fascination with sarin. In 1991 Aum was involved in a land dispute in the city of Matsumoto. Last June the hearings had been completed, and a three-judge panel was about to rule; but three weeks before their decision was due, someone released a cloud of sarin, a substance more usually associated with national arsenals and weapons treaties, into the Matsumoto night. Seven people were killed and 200 injured; of the three judges, all of whom were sleeping in the affected area, all required treatment, and one was hospitalized. There has been no decision...