Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wilhelm, Stefan Kurt is equally good with both Buster Keaton looniness and the melodramatic pathos into which he collapses after losing his mind (and, again, his trousers). Nobody has ever made sliminess more winning than Dominique Horwitz as Pegleg. True to his show-biz heart, he doesn't disappear inside his 10-ft.-tall black coffin until he has sung some dreadful treacle about the last rose in his garden. After that, there can't be anyone in the house who isn't thinking that there's gotta be a way to keep this whatever-it-is together and take...
Right now, once aliens enter the U.S., it is almost impossible to deport them, even if they have no valid documents. Thousands of those who enter illegally request asylum only if they are caught. The review process can take 10 years or more, and applicants often simply disappear while it is under way. Asylum cases are piling up faster than they can be cleared, with the Immigration and Naturalization Service falling farther behind every year. At her confirmation hearings at the end of September, Doris Meissner, Clinton's nominee as commissioner of the INS, conceded, "The asylum system is broken...
...tenure among members of the Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P), so secure that it was handed on from father to son, is bound to crumble, and the number of political parties in the country will probably shrink from the current nine to two or three. Though corruption will surely not disappear, the current need for politicians to raise huge sums of under-the-table cash for re-election will diminish. Perhaps most important, the new system will help shift power from rural voters and rice-farming interests to city dwellers, who are the vast, underrepresented majority...
...history has demonstrated: wrong. No one would dare claim that in Central America poverty and injustice are gone. But the region no longer seethes with revolution. What happened? Injustice did not disappear. The Soviets did, and with them the sinews and romance of socialist revolution...
...starts scrambling.He backs up to Yale's 15-yard line before tossingthe pigskin to monstrous tight end Peter Varney.Varney towers over Yale defensive end Ed Frankilnand snags the pass out of the air for Harvard'sversion of The Catch. The Stadium erupts; theCrimson has made the Elis' lead disappear. Harvardbeats Yale...