Word: drownings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hillary Clinton will be targeted too. "Barbara Bush plays the piano so she doesn't drown out George's violin," says Richard Nixon. "Hillary pounds the piano so hard that Bill can't be heard. You want a wife who's intelligent, but not too intelligent." For Roger Ailes, who directed the Bush media effort four years ago, the logic is simple: "You couple them and go for a score on family values. You say that Bill and Hillary believe that children should have the right to sue their parents. I don't know if Bill believes that, but Hillary...
...Euro Disney offers few sops to European traditions. Wine may be as mother's milk to the French, but they will find only "mocktails" at the restaurants inside the park; they must get their hand stamped at the turnstile, walk a few yards to the nearest hotel bar and drown their rancor there. The Pinocchio and Star Tours rides, among others, provide French dialogue, but visitors who have no English will miss the verbal nuances that lend the park its impish...
...there is a dark side to buying on credit, as some students have found. Lured by the ease of buying on credit, some students said they underestimated the serious responsibility involved with owning credit cards. So from negligence or lack of funds, they drown in the quicksand of time and money...
...question now is whether this wonder will be lost again. The temples of Angkor are deteriorating steadily as they slowly drown in a giant swamp. While preservation efforts have focused on the facades, the foundations have been eroding. New restoration proposals by countries from Japan to Poland have raised hopes that the temples will be saved, but progress is hampered by a lack of coordinated planning and by corruption in Cambodia...
...network of moats and canals provided an almost continuous supply of water so that three rice crops a year could be grown. That production enabled Khmer Kings to extend their empires and build temples to their own divinity. It is the destruction of that intricate water system that could drown most of the major monuments...