Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Croatia enters the war at full throttle, the Balkan equation will change entirely. It will be a Serb vs. Croat conflict; the Bosnian Muslims will become the Croats' rivalrous junior partners; and the border between Bosnia and Croatia may all but disappear. There are six armies in the field along that border: those of the Croats, the Bosnian Croats and the Bosnian Muslims, all of whom are allied; and those of the Bosnian Serbs, the Croatian Serbs and some renegade Bosnian Muslims, all of whom are also allied. If the Serbs of Croatia and Bosnia begin to lose battles...
...municipal bond? What town has not floated an issue to build a road? What little old lady (or big mutual fund) has not heard an accountant extol "munis" as the most foolproof of investments? Lending to companies is risky: they fold overnight, leaving squabbling creditors. But municipalities don't disappear from the map; and knowing they will borrow more tomorrow, they will do anything -- even raise taxes-to avoid defaulting today...
...Soviet Union were constantly haunted by fear that nuclear war would start if one side called a bluff that turned out to be no bluff. That dread died with the dissolution of the U.S.S.R.--but neither the U.S. nor Japan is going to disappear as an economic superpower...
...Without HRT, a woman's risk of a heart attack rises to match that of men within 15 years of menopause. Estrogen also acts directly on blood vessels, causing them to dilate slightly so that blood flow improves, says Dr. Roger Blumenthal of Johns Hopkins Hospital. But these benefits disappear as soon as the patient stops taking hormones...
...Healy conceded that "the billboards willnot disappear on June...