Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was converting the landscape into a perilous flash point. Palestinians hurled stones, Israeli soldiers fired tear gas, Arab leaders issued harsh denunciations, and every single friend of Israel's disapproved. Defying them all, knowing he risked far more serious violence, Netanyahu ordered the bulldozers to dig on. Now history will decide whether those few square yards were a necessary, legitimate addition to Israel's housing stock or a flaming brand tossed on the pyre of Palestinian impatience and despair...
...street from the White House, explains bluntly, "I'm not interested in speculating on the architecture or the geography. I don't think of heaven as a specified place in the universe to which we could somehow go if we could find the right galaxy. We dig a lot deeper. I preach on trust...
...nation's air traffic. Pilots gasped at the political intervention. Said James Sovich, president of the Allied Pilots Association amid cheers by union members: "There is no deal, there is no contract, there is no labor peace. I prefer that it not have occurred." In an edgy dig at Clinton, he added that most American pilots are Vietnam war veterans who naturally will obey their commander-in-chief. At the core of the dispute are plans by American to staff its commuter feeder routes with employees who are not covered by the same wage and benefits agreements enjoyed...
...nation's air traffic. Pilots gasped at the political intervention. Said James Sovich, president of the Allied Pilots Association amid cheers by union members: "There is no deal, there is no contract, there is no labor peace. I prefer that it not have occurred." In an edgy dig at Clinton, he added that most American pilots are Vietnam war veterans who naturally will obey their commander-in-chief. At the core of the dispute are plans by American to staff its commuter feeder routes with employees who are not covered by the same wage and benefits agreements enjoyed...
...agreement before Clinton's announcement--and the one with whom Utahns still want to cut a deal--is the Andalex mining company. Recently, though, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and other environmental groups have publicized the fact that Andalex is based in the Netherlands. The net profits from any dig--beyond the $4 billion--would thus not even remain in the U.S., never mind Utah. The coal itself would also be headed overseas, mostly to the Pacific...