Word: djakarta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leader of a guerrilla coalition that is battling Kampuchea's Vietnamese-backed government; the next month he just as abruptly resumed his post. After Viet Nam stepped up its troop withdrawal from Kampuchea, ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed to be host to peace talks in Djakarta next week between the warring sides. But then Sihanouk, who ruled Kampuchea (then called Cambodia) until 1970, quit his job again...
...girl and her friend, the shoes are an event. They fall about each other, laugh and shiver, hold one another. When they've finished they bum Djakarta cigarettes from a nearby skinhead. The girl turns back to me, looking bored. Her eyes, brown and indolent, hover above and beyond, taking in the passersby, the shopfronts, the traffic, her friends...
...response to this dazzling array of horrors, I have thought up numerous ways to protect myself. An easy way to stop the "where are you from?" ordeal dead in its tracks is to say "Latvia." If they persist, demanding "Then where did you get that accent?" "Djakarta" and "Where did you get those teeth?" are personal favorites...
...urban areas, using a weighted cost of living index that includes such items as food, household goods, utilities, alcohol, recreation and entertainment. This year's list contains some old favorites. Tokyo, last year's No. 1, is now in second place. There are also some surprises. Oslo, Djakarta and Baghdad reign as the third, fourth and fifth most expensive cities...
...fighting over his estate discovered him to have a bank account of nearly $35 million. The Indonesian state oil company, Pertamina, has charged in court that two German companies, Siemens and Klockner Industrie, paid Thahir the money in connection with the construction of a $500 million steel mill near Djakarta...