Word: containment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trio of backup singers hovering over the keyboard, dispensing flash-point smiles -- may do wonders for the soda, but it does tend to sell soul a bit short. It's tough to be a genius and a pitchman at the same time, especially when the TV spots contain more concentrated energy than your last half-dozen albums...
...favor the traditional geological definition, which has been adopted by North Carolina and several other states: water that flows naturally to the earth's surface and is drawn off there. Water sucked up through layers of earth via boreholes, they contend, may be of poorer quality because it can contain impurities...
...source said the discussion at that meeting was not long, but did contain some disagreement about the appropriateness of Powell as a speaker. "There were concerns that Powell had taken a position that was contrary to the one that Harvard espoused," said the source...
BEST KNOWN AS A PORTRAIT OF A BLACK LEADER'S LIFE, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X was meant to contain a 14-point economic plan for black America. The plan is spelled out in one of four unpublished chapters of the manuscript, bought several months ago at an auction of Alex Haley's estate by a Detroit lawyer, Gregory J. Reed. In a chapter titled "20 Millions" (referring to the number of blacks in America), Malcolm sketches a step-by-step program for establishing black schools, libraries and banks. "For the first time, the White man would see the Black...
...mood of crisis began to cool temporarily when the missing Yeltsin decree was finally distributed, four days late. Surprisingly, the text, dated March 20, did not contain the words declaring "special rule" that the court found impermissible, nor did it declare that parliamentary action against Yeltsin's decrees would be automatically invalid, as he had threatened...