Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arab alarms are reinforced by the building fear of Islamic fundamentalism in Western capitals and Moscow. As cold war tensions disappear, some intellectuals and politicians have begun to argue that the East-West confrontation will be replaced by North-South hostilities, which is to say a rising conflict between the haves and the have-nots. Islam is a religion that has appeal for the deprived. Moreover, although Tehran has yet to successfully export its revolution, the determination of Iran's fundamentalists to spread their radical brand of Islam raises the specter of subversion throughout the region...
...warm summer day in the hills of northern Transylvania. There is little traffic on the road, a strip of patched macadam that bisects the valley and climbs slowly through the trees to disappear in the direction of the Hungarian border. A pair of covered Gypsy wagons comes into view, each pulled by a stocky horse. As the wagons draw abreast, the driver of the first lifts his hat and waves. The second driver has stretched out and gone to sleep, the reins held loosely in hands clasped over his ample stomach...
...there were a few diehards at the publication who just were not ready to see Perspective disappear. So Adam R. Cohen '90, the paper's production manager, and a few staffers decided to stay in Cambridge for the summer to sell enough advertising to bring Perspective out of the red. And although Cohen had never done sales before, he single-handedly brought in the thousands of dollars needed to keep the magazine in business...
...wide, the subterranean pathway had electric lighting, water pumps and storage compartments for drug caches. "It was just an exceptionally professionally engineered tunnel," said a Customs official. Agents first began to suspect the tunnel's existence last February, when a drug shipment they were tracking seemed to mysteriously disappear. Two weeks ago, they seized 2,258 lbs. of cocaine, valued at more than $100 million, that had come through the Arizona pipeline...
Korean residents can apply for Japanese citizenship but often do not, charging that the subtle prejudices against them do not disappear. "Every day I face invisible barriers," says Hong Dae Pyo, a language-school director who contends that he was fired from a salesman's position when his employer discovered he was Korean. "If Japan accepted me as Hong Dae Pyo, I would naturalize tomorrow...