Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President's discomforts, however fleeting, reflect some of the more basic needs his government will have to address in its first few months in power. Schools languish in disrepair. Garbage is piled high around the capital, and the municipal dump is an unsightly waterfront horror that breeds disease. Roads are barely navigable; in some places, the potholes have grown so large and deep that they are known in Haitian Creole as tonmbo, or tombs. At midweek, gasoline had still not made it to the nation's pumps, and the stockpiled supplies of street dealers were dwindling. It was a characteristically...
Last spring, union officials charged the club with using strong-arm tactics against the strikers--including having workers dump water on the picketing employees...
Mary does shed new light on the aborted effort to dump Dan Quayle because of a secret poll showing that the Vice President was costing Bush 4 to 6 percentage points. (She later strains credulity when she gushes, "We knew the real day-to-day Quayle, and he was really smart.") Where Bob Woodward breathlessly announced in The Agenda that the President has a temper, James rightly treats these tantrums as common knowledge and not to be taken too seriously. "The truth of the matter," he says, "is that ((Clinton)) was all smoke and no fire...
...Cairo. Home to 14 million people, the Egyptian capital shows all too clearly the consequences of the inexorable human drive to have children. Cairo's open space per capita must be measured in square inches, and the poorest citizens build shelters on rooftops, in cemeteries and in the city dump. Cramped conditions are nothing new, of course, but even old-timers lament that population pressures are making Egyptians "bestial" to one another...
...percent majority in what is believed to be a fairly clean election. His dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) also was leading in a whopping 278 of 300 congressional races and in virtually all 64 Senate races. Why did Mexicans stick with the PRI, in their first chance to dump it in 65 years? Consider the uprising of the Zapatista rebels in January, the assassination of the PRI's first candidate in March, and two high-profile kidnappings. "It has been a very volatile year," says TIME Latin America Bureau Chief Laura Lopez. "People are looking for stability...