Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...travelled to Europe; he's traveled to Asia; he's travelled to the West Coast; and he's finally come to Fall River," Kennedy said as the crowd roared in approval...
Just after midnight last Wednesday, a taxi chugging along the Kangnung highway on the east coast of South Korea threw its headlights briefly on a group of young men sitting by the roadside. The area is about 75 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone and has more than once been the scene of infiltration by North Korean spies and saboteurs. Taxi driver Lee Jin Gyu noted the short haircuts and similar clothing on the young men and began to wonder about them. After dropping off his passenger, he drove back to the spot. The men had left, but he took...
...Seoul and its ally, the U.S., the sub is an intelligence prize: very little is known about the primitive North Korean subs that patrol the coast, and the Pentagon may now learn how to track their acoustic signatures. Still, South Korea is rightly protesting this raid as a violation of the armistice and the spirit of the post-cold war times. Some Koreans wonder whether President Kim Jong Il has a firm grip on things in the North or if his military might be getting out of hand. Analysts say it's more like business as usual. Pyongyang refused...
...among the most critical of all reef inhabitants, especially herbivores like parrotfish that eat seaweed. Fast-growing seaweed is always threatening to engulf the reefs, but it is usually kept in check by grazing fish. About a decade ago, a team of marine scientists conducted an experiment off the coast of Belize that proves this point. To keep fish out, the researchers surrounded a section of coral the size of a small pasture with a chicken-wire fence. Within 10 weeks, they found, the area inside the fence had been completely overgrown by seaweed and many of the corals...
...West Coast, unions and consumer groups have put two versions of a Patient Protection Act on November's ballot. Propositions 214 and 216 would require the state to enforce minimum staffing levels for licensed personnel at all medical facilities and would protect whistle-blowing health-care workers from being fired. Similar measures have been introduced throughout the country, from the U.S. Congress to the Cincinnati city council, but nowhere does the battle loom larger than in California. A coalition led by the health-care industry and the Chamber of Commerce has mounted a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to defeat...