Word: flees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women flee economic disaster in Eastern Europe, Asia and elsewhere, the hazards work both ways. Gerry Williams, a photographer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, brought home a mail-order wife from Russia in November 1997. Six months later, as he was leaving for Russia to do a story on the industry, his unhappy bride bolted. "She cleaned me out," says Williams. "She used me to get to America to meet a younger, richer...
...Book of Confucius. Quality of life and solitude are good and well while enjoying the fine cheeses and well while enjoying the fine cheeses and wine of France or the sangria and tapas of Spain. But some Harvard students flee from the "good life" and pursue soul seeking under more rugged conditions...
...less than a week, most of the student body will be let loose on the world in a desperate nine day attempt to flee Harvard. Some people will be drunk beyond belief in some tropical paradise. Some will be jetting through Europe on a whirlwind trip. Some will be fighting for the remote at home. Some will be puttering around the dorms, finishing up thesis work of enjoying having the common room all to themselves. But regardless of where we go or what we do, we all share one intention: to seek some solace from the stress that invades...
...less than a week, most of the student body will be let loose on the world in a desperate nine-day attempt to flee Harvard. Some people will be drunk beyond belief in some tropical paradise. Some will be jetting through Europe on a whirlwind trip. Some will be fighting for the remote at home. Some will be puttering around the dorms, finishing up thesis work or enjoying having the common room all to themselves. But regardless of where we go or what we do, we all share one intention: to seek some solace from the stress that invades...
...Barnes has proposed a regional transportation authority that can block local plans for the new roads that encourage development. But dumb growth is not confined to Atlanta. Half a century after America loaded the car and fled to the suburbs, these boundless, slapdash places are making people want to flee once more. "All of a sudden, they're playing leapfrog with a bulldozer," says Al Gore, who wants to be the antisprawl candidate...