Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LIKE AN ARMY OF ANTS, HAITIANS BY the hundreds scurry up and down the dusty banks of the Massacre River with their gallon plastic jugs. Their day's work done, they head home carrying vessels filled with a precious pink fluid: gasoline smuggled across the river from the Dominican Republic. For the people of Ouanaminthe in northeastern Haiti, the daily trek has become an economic necessity since last October, when the United Nations reimposed a fuel embargo against the country's recalcitrant military rulers...
Clinton's recollection of the $46,636 figure has been rather fluid. At his press conference last week, the President admitted to something like a recovered memory when he announced that he and his wife had not lost $68,900 on Whitewater, the figure they have claimed since 1992. While reading the manuscript of his late mother's forthcoming autobiography, Clinton said, he remembered taking out a loan to help her buy property and a cabin in Arkansas. When questions about Whitewater first arose during the 1992 campaign, Denver attorney James Lyons, who was hired by the Clinton campaign...
...again after decades of lying dormant in victims' cells. This notion gained support in 1991, when British scientists reported that 58% of the postpolio patients they tested had high concentrations of polio-type antibodies not only in their blood, which is to be expected, but also in their spinal fluid, which suggests a current infection. That does not explain, however, why the disease resurfaces so long after the original infection, and attempts to replicate the British findings have been unsuccessful. Since it's possible that the dormant virus could mutate into active new forms, scientists are searching for such culprits...
...been called Frankenthaler's "most ambitious print project." The Gateway series is composed of twelve different bronze screens, one of which appears in the show. The screens are a unique blend of sculpture, painting and print-making: prints on handmade paper are framed in a bronze folding screen. The fluid metalwork echoes the painterly strokes. The piece is double-sided, with each side worked to an equal degree of completion; there is no "front" or "back...
While the Crimson players spoke tersely after the game about "tough breaks" and "frustrating calls" inside, the Eli offense was comparatively fluid...