Word: fortress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they quickly jumped back into their car and drove off. Jim Willwerth was watching a group of looters empty a sporting-goods store when one punched him in the head and tried to seize his notebook. He fled to a nearby minimall, where the merchants had set up a fortress of their own. Willwerth, who has covered wars and insurrections on two continents in his 25 years at TIME, says simply, "If there is a hell, it must look something like L.A. did that night...
...Square outsiders, it's that pink fortress-like building with the garish red neon sign along Mass Ave. Ask those who go there, and they will tell you it is the ultimate dining experience...
...exchanges. Alakhverdi Bagirov, the commander of local Azeri Popular Front forces, and Vitaly Balasanian, his Armenian counterpart, have known each other since childhood, long before their two towns were divided by war. Balasanian, 33, who managed a restaurant in peacetime, runs the headquarters of his battalion from a stone fortress built in 1751 on a hill overlooking Askeran. At their daily negotiations, he and Bagirov sit on rocks beside a shelter dug out of the road and agree to keep their own separate peace, even as others continue to fight...
Harkin the Hawk: veering close to unabashed protectionism, he demands that the Japanese reduce their trade surplus by 20% a year -- or else. The threat would be akin to a Fortress America ban on Japanese imports, a drastic remedy with scant appeal to voters who freely choose to drive Japanese cars...
...days. Attack after attack failed to dislodge them. In the first week of December, just as the Pacific war began, an Allied thrust threatened to encircle Rommel's forces. To avoid falling into a trap, the Germans withdrew from Tobruk. In the last confusing battle over the fortress, 38,000 Axis soldiers were killed; the Allies lost...