Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. SIR FRANK WHITTLE, 89, engineer who in the 1930s developed the first jet engine for Britain, just as Hans J.P. von Ohain independently built one for Germany; in Columbia, Maryland...
Last week intrepid birders--they don't call themselves bird watchers anymore--were combing western Washington and southwestern British Columbia in pursuit of, among other species, the black-footed albatross and crested myna. Or they were in southeastern Arizona, stalking the violet-crowned hummingbird and sulphur-bellied flycatcher, all the while praying for a glimpse of the rare eared trogon...
When the Olympic torch was lit earlier this month, Hollywood watched its box office go up in flames. Moviegoing dropped more than 20% as four new films--Disney's Kazaam, MGM's Fled, Universal's The Frighteners and Columbia's Multiplicity--withered in a dreadful midsummer conflagration...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia: Intense negotiations between the U.S. and Japan, which continued past their Wednesday deadline, have successfully averted a trade war. Both sides are claiming victory, with acting U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky calling the deal "responsive to the views of the Clinton Administration", and her counterpart, Japanese Trade Minister Shunpei Tsukahara, saying the deal was almost exactly the same as Japan's version of the plan. Until the agreement was announced today, U.S. negotiators were arguing that the inroads American computer chips had made in the Japanese market were in jeopardy if no transition agreement could be reached...
Scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory last week reported strong evidence that the Earth's inner core--a sphere about the size of the Moon--is spinning freely within the molten outer core...