Word: flare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sporadic violence, could practically qualify as peace in the Balkans. The focus was on ethnic Serbs battering ethnic Muslims. No longer. Muslim residents of Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina, are not preoccupied with Serb attempts to seize the eastern part of the once graceful city. Brutal street battles now flare as the Croats rain artillery fire on the Muslim districts, killing scores of residents and forcing thousands of others to flee for their lives...
...Flare Up and Fizzle...
...most recent flare-up began with the comment by professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. in The Crimson that grade inflation was in part due to the rising number of Black students at Harvard. According to Mansfield, professors were hesitant to fairly grade those Blacks who deserved low grades, thus raising the average. He did not substantiate his claims with facts or figures, but based his observation on personal experience...
Troyka, which has served standard Russian fare for the past three years and ten months, decorates its walls with an old world flare, Tetradze says...
...fungus has permanently damaged lung or bone tissue, surgical repair may be needed. Since the drugs serve only to suppress the fungus, not to kill it, those who develop a severe case of valley fever may require treatment for years and can never be sure that it will not flare up again...