Word: ets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...siecle et on sera mort...
Thumbing its nose at near-unanimous international condemnation, France set off a third nuclear blast beneath the Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia about 6 p.m. ET. "This test was necessary to guarantee in the future the security and reliability of our arms," the French Defense Ministry said in a statement. French President Jacques Chirac has promised to sign a global test ban treaty, but only after all eight planned tests have occurred...
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. When the Republican Party planned its 10-candidate presidential showdown in New Hampsire, which will be carried live on CNN, who knew that O.J. Simpson would be talking to Brokaw and Couric at the same time? The CNN show starts at 8pm ET and runs to 9:30pm. Not much chance viewers will stick around. Day of Judgment: Photographs from the Simpson Verdict
...several other tables for smokers' use, as do many other establishments. One could argue that confining smokers to overpriced Square hangouts like mine means effectively limiting the practice to a wealthy elite, but I would respond that those who can afford regular two dollar donations to Phillip Morris et al. should not be crying poverty. And as long as tobacco conglomorates continue shamelessly to target they young, the working class, minorities and women, smoking will remain an equal-opportunity vice...
Musically, Nagano has full command of a repertoire both wide and deep, moving with ease between the limpid grace of the classical period and the densest, most fearsome modern scores. His six-year tenure in Lyons has been marked both by important premieres (Debussy's unfinished Rodrigue et Chimene) and by alternative versions of such staples as Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann; in Manchester he champions a group of young, modernist British composers. "I guess I take an awful lot of risks," says Nagano. "But what I'm trying to do is make music an active, living art form that...