Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know a 91-year-old woman who left Germany in 1933 with her husband and son, moved to Israel, raised her children there and watched and in effect, helped it grow. Now she is worried that through the peace process, through compromises, Israel and Israelis will lose ground. What would...
...Post Cereal, part of the Philip Morris consumer-goods empire, last week slashed the wholesale price of its 22 cereal brands an average of 20%. The price cuts, the most sweeping in decades, are designed to puff up Post's soggy sales. The No. 3 manufacturer had been losing ground to Kellogg and General Mills, the industry leaders in the $7.5 billion cold-cereal business, as well as to store brands. If--and it's a big if--grocers pass along the full savings, the price of a 20-oz. box of Post Premium Raisin Bran would fall from...
...Anthony Lukas' book on the Boston busing wars, Common Ground, won a Pulitzer Prize...
Wonderful things would continue to be produced for the Chinese imperial courts right down to the 19th century. In pottery, the innovation of blue glaze designs painted on a white ground belongs to the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1272-1368); but it reached its finest period under the later Ming Emperors in such objects as an early 15th century porcelain vase with a furious blue dragon galumphing around it, all its spikes and scales and fierce serpent rhythms contrasting with the suave, plump profile of the vase...
...economic modernization. For Yeltsin, it is important to have peace in the east while he deals with NATO expansion on his western border." While the border agreement is the most significant of the deals reached by Yeltsin and Jiang during the summit, the two leaders also reached common ground on a number of other issues, including increased communication and cooperation in developing nuclear energy. Increasing the $5.5 billion in trade between the two countries was a top priority for both men. China has already agreed to spend $1 billion to buy 72 Russian jet fighters. "Russia...