Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after the Hutu ousted the Tutsi elite from power in 1959. In neighboring Burundi, Tanzania, Zaire and Uganda, they suffered the indignities of the stateless: scapegoats for the political crises of the day. Through it all, the exiles saw their homeland as a mythical country of verdant hillsides and crystal lakes, whose people and terrain they could glimpse only in textbooks. "I didn't know much about Rwanda," recalls rebel leader Paul Kagame, 37, in a rare quiet moment on the outskirts of Kigali last week. "But I knew it was my country...
City Slickers had a nice little concept going for it: urban tenderfeet learn to feel at home on the range and become better men for the experience. The problem for II is that having achieved that state of grace, there's no compelling reason for Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal, who co-wrote the script with Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel) and Phil Berquist (Daniel Stern) to head West again. Especially since Jack Palance's Curly, their comically tough mentor, was killed off three years ago. The film resorts to a faux ghost routine and a twin-brother conceit...
...decision was a blow to Harvard Management Company (HMC), which had hoped to sell the two Crystal, City, Va., buildings to the Navy...
...announcement follows a six month Navy study on the economic consequences of staying in Crystal City. The study determined that the Navy would save $600 million in the long run by moving to Maryland...
...Crystal Holdings Corp., an HMC subsidiary whichmanages the property, hired the Washington firm ofMcAuliffe, Kelly & Raffaelli to lobby about a"base closure" according to documents it filedwith the government last year...