Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone: While Sierra Leone's capital continues to degenerate into a free-for-all among looters, mutinous soldiers and terrified locals, foreigners in the city are getting out. Shuttling furiously between a Freetown harbor hotel and the USS Kearsarge waiting 20 miles off the coast, U.S. Marine helicopters evacuated 843 foreigners, among them some 300 Americans, in batches of up to 55 while Nigerian peacekeeping troops stood guard at the hotel entrance. The U.S. Embassy has already shut down its operations in the capital. Embassy staff were headed for Conakry, the capital of neighboring Guinea, said embassy spokeswoman...
...opened in April in Louisville's Kentucky Kingdom, claims the "tallest vertical loop for any roller coaster" (121 ft.), while a new ride 200 ft. tall at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pa., is distinguishing itself as "the tallest, longest and fastest steel roller coaster on the East Coast." The Great White at Sea World of Texas in San Antonio is that state's only inverted coaster. But what if you're a wimp? Well, no one has torn down all the world's merry-go-rounds just...
...today's PCS networks can't match the analog crowd as a provider of seamless coast-to-coast calling because the new services are still fragmented and operate on three different technical standards. And you have to buy the digital phones, which a company like AT&T sells in the New York City area for $79 to $149, including a small pager-like window that displays messages. Basic analog phones, on the other hand, are frequently offered for little or nothing as incentives to sign...
...Erie Canal spurs trade beyond the East Coast...
...prime subject of the country's art. "In the beginning," wrote John Locke in the 17th century, "all the world was America." It was not necessarily a reassuring thought, for America seemed very strange to its first European settlers, particularly the Puritans in New England. To them, its rocky coast and tangled woods were--in the expressive phrase used by one of them--"the Lord's waste," an unowned biblical desert full of strange beasts and savage half-men. However, although America produced no significant landscape painting or religious art during the 17th or 18th century, by the mid-19th...