Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fifth or sixth reel of an ongoing eco-melodrama involving the threatened cutting of ancient California redwoods on the foggy north coast flickered to a close last week, though more perils lurked. There lay the heroine, hog-tied to the tracks; there came the choo-choo; there gloated the villain, twirling his mustache. Logging was to begin in three days. Negotiators for the U.S. Department of the Interior were scripted as heroes at a day-long wrangle at the Washington office of California Senator Dianne Feinstein...
...East Coast, the Portuguese and the Italians settled here and they laid claim to him," Keohane says. "Columbus Day is a tradition in the Boston area. There's even a rivalry between the Portuguese and the Italians about whose holiday...
...Chinese and Senkaku by the Japanese) has ignited a grass-roots movement in capitalist Hong Kong, communist China, and among pro-unification forces in Taiwan. This territoriality has been matched by rightist indignation in Japan, which has not fought a war since 1945 but which sent its coast guard to the islands last week to turn away two groups of Chinese protesters intent on reaching the disputed specks. Last week the Chinese got their first martyr--a Hong Kong activist who drowned after leaping overboard to symbolically claim the waters for China. Beijing, which had encouraged the confrontation to tweak...
...This team has shown over the last couple of weeks that we can play with any team on the east coast," junior Andy Davis said. "It was just a matter of time before we pulled...
...former top staff member for Shuster, still heads up the Pennsylvania Congressman's fund raising. Now there is a new flap. It seems Eppard worked with a lobbyist who represents Carnival Cruise Lines and its trade group to get Shuster's support for a "technical amendment" to the Coast Guard reauthorization bill. Tacked on at the last minute by a member of Shuster's committee, the amendment would, among other things, but most distastefully, shield cruise-line companies from lawsuits by women who are raped aboard their ships. Its wording allows the lines to escape liability for emotional distress...