Word: containers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being, quite simply, "Why?" Amos built her style and reputation around her unique and passionate keyboarding skills. Why are a lead guitarist, a bassist, and a drummer so necessary now? Was it to better showcase the songs off her latest album, from the choirgirl hotel, which does not contain as many all-acoustic songs as her previous albums have? Or is it precisely because Amos now wants to play in arenas like the Fleet Center, with its copious quantities of seats and t-shirt sales and the opportunity to play on an enormous stage with a huge light show going...
Maria Lammers looked stunned when she heard the news from this reporter. Wiping her hands on her well-worn cook's apron, the bespectacled owner of the 25-year-old Gallagher's farm market and bakery could barely contain her excitement: "That's wonderful! That's great!" Fire up your ovens! It's a new dawn at the National Cherry Festival, for 72 years a celebrated rite of summer in quaint Traverse City, Mich. For the first time in more than two decades, you'll be able to buy a slice of freshly made cherry pie at the fest, which...
...annoying bout of colitis, Costello had reportedly told friends of graver worries. Despite his measure of fame, Laudor had not been able to find work teaching law. Friends say the finely calibrated, constantly adjusted medication he took may have ceased to be effective. Others speculate that the attempt to contain his life with enough lucidity to work on a manuscript due in August placed extreme pressure on the perfectionistic Laudor, perhaps to the extent that he stopped taking his medicine. A publishing insider who saw Laudor's book proposal said it was written with "an almost mathematical use of language...
...been the hotbed of the Tiananmen protests, Clinton may have expected some softball questions. Instead he was peppered with fastballs and sliders on everything from the U.S.'s own human rights record and U.S. arms sales to Taiwan to whether, behind his smile, he was actually trying to contain China. Clinton appeared to enjoy the exchange -- and so he should, since it was further evidence of the "breeze of freedom" he says is blowing through China, which is good news for a China policy that was looking a little embattled last week...
...clouds of smoke that have endangered public health from Singapore to Houston. But so far it's been easier to announce programs to combat the fires than to get at the causes. In April the United Nations Environment Program called for a $10 million fund to help Southeast Asia contain its fires. Washington has contributed $7.5 million to Mexico's firefighting efforts...