Word: evening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great to be back home in Southern California and at the gym the morning after Thanksgiving dinner. It's an interesting place, that Golden State. It's even more interesting in Orange County, nestled between Los Angeles and San Diego, where I live. Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda in 1913. Bob Dornan prevailed in one Congressional race after another until Loretta Sanchez thankfully ousted him from office. Community members founded a John Birch Society chapter there to weed out the Communists that had infiltrated the orange groves. The orange groves have since been replaced by Spanish-style roofs...
...customs seized a convoy of trucks carrying some 350 tons of oil intended for Nis and Pirot, two opposition-run towns in southern Serbia. The convoy was stopped as soon as it crossed the border from Macedonia, and the two mayors, who came to meet it, were not even allowed to get near the trucks...
...nightto be first in line at discount stores Friday morning for all those $45 VCRs and $99 TVs). Confronted with surging stock markets, shrinking unemployment and virtually nonexistent inflation, retailers - and e-tailers - could be forgiven for feeling especially confident that in the next five weeks they will surpass even last year's whopping $170 billion in sales for the holiday shopping season. Truly, the most wonderful time of the year...
...probably done tinkering until this whole Y2K thing blows over. But just as certainly as the credit card bills will come due in January, the Fed will reevaluate its position in the next year, and may feel that another rate hike will be necessary to keep everything on an even keel. Still, January's a long way from now, and until then it looks as if the economic bar will definitely remain open...
...building next to the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth. "In the end it was simply a political decision," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "There are a lot more Muslim voters in Israel than there are Christian voters. That's what influenced the government to accommodate them, even though they had no legitimate historical claim to the land." Local Muslims had lobbied hard to build alongside the church, which stands on the site where Mary is said to have learned that she was pregnant with the baby Jesus...