Word: exit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final exit of the Indian forces has defused one of Sri Lanka's most combustible issues. But the pullout also created a power vacuum in the island's north and east that was quickly filled by the militants the Indians had been fighting, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who have yet to renounce their goal of a separate state for the country's minority Tamils. For now, the separatists and the central government in Colombo are working in concert for peace, but their alliance is anything but stable...
...women huddle over sewing machines, stitching $2 blouses that stores sell for $15.99. Beside them work children, some as young as eight, snipping thread and bagging dresses for as little as $2.50 an hour. The narrow aisles of the garment factories are cluttered beyond hope of reaching a fire exit, which in many instances are blocked by debris. In one plant, the wall around the plastic crucifix is peeling, the tin ceiling sagging, the floor ankle deep in tissue, scraps, foam and fluff. But for the steam rising from the ironing boards, the air does not move. In the front...
...country, and it will take you to obscure places you call home and away from places you never want to see again. Planes and trains serve 500 communities; Greyhound serves 9,500. For many Americans who live in small towns, when there's no Greyhound, there's no exit...
Besides, dissidents in the Soviet Union are used to paying for their freedom. A century ago, my grandparents had to buy their way out of Russia. More recently, the only way to emigrate has been to bribe an official for an exit visa...
...last week was any indication, winter would make no graceful exit this year. Without warning, t-shirts made a sudden appearance in the Yard. Listening carefully, one could hear the collective sigh of relief from the Square's ice-cream vendors as winter died a sudden death...