Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beloved comes back, though--her hunger for her mother's lover brings her back from the other side. Angry, Beloved returns to consume her mother, and Sethe's wrenching guilt allows...
...partially destroyed parliament building serves as the city's maternity ward, where nurses tend newborn babies by candlelight. A member of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which opened a station in Stepanakert three weeks ago, said he fears the city could soon be struck by hunger, and, as the weather warms, by epidemics...
There was a time when Colt's .45 revolver was synonymous with the Wild West. But a decline in military and police orders for quality weapons, foreign competition and a seemingly insatiable public hunger for automatic weapons and cheap handguns combined to stifle the 156-year-old firm...
...actor, who works with The Hunger Project and other causes, stressed the dual importance of performance and public service in his life...
...tenor of assistance has to change from the immediate to the long-term. Food and medicine will still be needed, but "the hunger and thirst for technical assistance is much greater," says Richard Armitage, who has been put in charge of American assistance to the former Soviet Union. Russia needs help in creating and solidifying the institutions essential to a stable democracy, from functioning financial operations to an independent judiciary, a coherent parliamentary system and wholesale and retail markets. Virtually none of these pillars of the Western life-style exist in Russia; reformers are starting from scratch...