Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adorned by simple wreaths. The graves contain the charred remains of local residents who perished on June 25, when the Soufriere Hills volcano spewed 150-m.p.h. molten rivers of lava, gas and ash down its flanks onto the villages below. As farmers tended to their carrot and cabbage fields, huge rocks showered on them and the scorching lava raced over the scalded ground. Ash-filled smoke plunged the land into darkness. There was nowhere to run. Nineteen people died, buried under tons of volcanic slag...
...mines to prevent enemy troops from approaching and easily disabling the larger mines. Clinton's decision to join the Ottawa process came abruptly, less than a week after the Pentagon was patiently explaining that the U.S. wouldn't join because the talks "do not involve other countries that have huge inventories and which actually export them." Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who has assembled 60 votes for his proposal to outlaw land-mine deployment by the year 2000, praised the switch, even with its caveats. "The Administration's come a long way toward my position in the last couple of days...
Although well known in Europe, Soros became frustrated because his huge wealth seemed to give him no political influence in the West. When the Berlin Wall fell, he sought to persuade both President George Bush and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to endorse a new Marshall Plan to rebuild the societies shattered by 70 years of communism. Neither leader would give him the time of day. He realized he needed to become a public personality...
...When we pulled up to Burning Man for the first time several years ago, we were greeted by a fat guy riding a large, furry rabbit motor scooter. He sat behind the ears. Across the desert we could see a truck hauling a mattress behind it, stirring up a huge, blinding vortex of dust. Three passengers in gas masks were reclining on the mattress, waving insanely...
...until the health of the church is compromised." At the same time Governor Bush is encouraging Texas churches to participate in government human-services programs, Strickland is at work on a statewide mailing urging them to think twice before taking on social services. "This is going to be a huge temptation for churches," says Strickland. "But we're going to be raising the warning signals...