Word: flees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...south and east, igniting Bosnia-Herzegovina and threatening to engulf other independence-minded regions of the former Yugoslavia, hope has evaporated that sanity will prevail. The toll is terrible: more than 12,000 people dead, tens of thousands missing and wounded, 1.5 million men, women and children forced to flee their homes. Those numbers only begin to hint at the horror, which U.S. Secretary of State James Baker characterized two weeks ago as a "humanitarian nightmare...
...word, meaning treason and surrender." Indeed, he appears to have hunkered down, convinced of his own righteousness. "We rejected the abolition of our country," he says. "If we have to be blamed for that, I am proud to be blamed for loyalty to my country." As hundreds die, thousands flee and Serbia faces international isolation, Milosevic's blame goes far beyond that...
...effective property-tax rate 66% higher than that of the well-to-do suburb of Farmington next door. Last year Hartford city manager Raymond Eugene Shipman proposed a payroll tax on the thousands of commuters who flock to the city's downtown office towers by day but flee by night. In the 1960s and early '70s, 15 major American cities had been granted such power by their state legislatures, which must approve municipal taxes. But as the legislatures filled with representatives of the burgeoning suburbs, major cities found it harder to win taxing authority. Los Angeles has been the only...
...woman, a first-year student from Europe, says the club represented the pretentious scene she was hoping to flee when she came to America...
...assume the role of underdog and Armenians appear to be the predatory wolves. Videotapes circulated by the Azerbaijanis include images of disfigured civilians, some of them scalped, others shot through the head. Armenians claim the footage is fake. They insist that they left a corridor open for civilians to flee Khojaly but that Azerbaijani soldiers led a group of 200 civilians into harm's way. The use of surface-to-air missiles, sophisticated Grad rocket batteries and armor proves that both sides are now armed with state-of-the-art weapons that were bequeathed by, sold by or stolen from...