Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...These are not good old boys driving a pickup truck with a gun rack," he says. "Some are, but some are young kids who are very technologically savvy. Some are white middle-class Americans who ascribe to a prenicious point of view. Some are very educated and well...
...course, the ballot initiative is also home to the ugliest part of democracy ? the wedge issue. There will be no gun locks for children, marijuana for cancer patients or gay rights for workers in Washington State, all because the majority ? who wouldn't have to pay an extra cent ? didn't judge any of these proposals morally correct...
...making, metallurgy and ship-building reached the world's best level in ancient times. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zaiyu initiated the 12-tone temperament, which later became the universal standard tones. Chinese medicine is a unique school of its own. China's four great inventions of paper-making, gun-powder, printing and [the] compass [...] changed the face of the world. These inventions and creations of China have brought forward the rationalistic brilliance of coordination between humanity and [...] nature, and the integration of scientific spirit with moral ideals...
...easy for Clinton to lay on the red-carpet welcome, the 21-gun salute, the Oval Office pageantry in Washington. The problem is the rest of the country, where Jiang is sure to face protesters, hecklers and tough questions from pesky reporters. At a Capitol Hill breakfast, half the Congressmen attending will be critics of China. Political demonstrators are going to dog his every step. China's officials say Jiang is visiting such hallowed points as colonial Williamsburg, Revolutionary Boston and Philadelphia's Liberty Bell to show his "deep democratic impulse"; Clinton's aides say these stopovers lend themselves...
After a 10-hour flight from Beijing, Jiang's jet landed at Hickham Air Base in Hawaii, where the Japanese surprise attack in 1941 catapulted the United States into World War II. At Hickham, Jiang received the military 21-gun salute given to official state visitora...