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Word: continentality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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A new focus on Africa's "islands of hope," rather than on its disaster-torn image, is the key to rekindling Western interest in the continent, UNICEF official Djibril Diallo said at the Harvard African Students Association's African Students Conference at the Kennedy School of Government Saturday.

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: UNICEF Official Seeks New Focus on Africa's Concerns | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

During the war, Munro was on the bridge of his ship with his captain when orders came from the Pentagon that the armed forces would be integrated. Without warning, the captain turned to him and bellowed, "Munro, integrate the ship! That's an order!" On that day, John Munro began...

Author: By Archie C. Epps iii, | Title: Shaping a Diverse Campus | 4/7/1993 | See Source »

NAFTA and its promise of economic benefits will go a long way in enabling the implementation of stricter scrutiny and more stringent environmental laws. The apocalyptic nightmare of a devastated landscape and the continent-wide lowering of environmental standards presented by the more radical environmentalist factions may make for good...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Right for North America | 3/23/1993 | See Source »

In grasping for a definitive spiritual facet to their cultural heritage, they latched onto Islam, the first major world religion to incorporate a large portion of the African continent. The Nation of Islam began preaching Islam as both the ancestral religion of the African and the ideology which would liberate...

Author: By Mohammed Asmal, | Title: Misrepresenting Islam | 3/12/1993 | See Source »

IN THEIR QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE, SCIENTISTS WILL take advantage of anything that's helpful, even a nuclear blast. Studies of the shock waves given off by a Chinese .66-megaton nuclear test have revealed a "continent" 2,000 miles underground, at the boundary between the molten iron of the planet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Helpful H-Bomb | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

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