Word: firebreak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...holds his baby daughter Rachel and talks about his longtime friend and fellow smoke jumper Don Mackey, 34. They and nine other Missoula colleagues had moved from a fire in New Mexico up to the Storm King site, where they spent Tuesday night chain-sawing trees for a firebreak. When the winds blew up the next afternoon, Rhoades and some of his teammates were lost and "getting spooked." Then they ran into Mackey, their leader, who pointed them toward a safe area...
...voted to move the party's position for political asylum closer to that of the ruling center- right coalition. The decision to push for a constitutional amendment to stem the influx of foreigners is based on the belief that reducing the number of asylum seekers will put a firebreak in the path of the xenophobic violence that has torn through the country this year. Moreover, the delegates reasoned, under their plan the truly persecuted would not be turned away...