Word: ices
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last season's squad--featuring only two seniors and sixteen underclassmen--led Tomassoni to give those youngsters significant ice time. The hope is that the struggles this brought last year's team will payoff this season...
...This is beginning to have demonstrable effects," he said, noting melting ice he saw during a recent trip to Montana's Glacier National Park. "Pretty soon, people are going to be calling the park known as Glacier the park formerly known as Glacier...
China can't get no respect. The world's most populous country, the up-and-coming superpower, the economic behemoth--none of that cuts much ice in American minds preoccupied with Tiananmen Square, Tibet and Taiwan, not to mention the Communist Party. That's precisely why China's President Jiang Zemin is so eager to come here. He may have consolidated power internally, but he desperately wants to affirm his nation's legitimacy abroad. So Jiang's aim during his eight-day state visit, the first since China's bloody suppression of the democracy movement in 1989, is nothing less...
...accelerating. The three hottest years in the past century have come in the past decade, and 1995 was the sultriest on record. Spring arrives a week earlier in the northern hemisphere than it did a decade ago. Mountain glaciers are melting all over the world, and the permanent sea ice surrounding Antarctica has receded dramatically. Unusually severe weather has been more frequent in the past few years, quite plausibly a consequence of both higher temperatures and the increased evaporation and precipitation they'd be likely to cause...
East Asia is a hot-money area. Speculators move in and out of it with swashbuckling abandon. As in any once volcanic, now cold-as-ice market, when the selling gets to be so great, the leveraged speculators have to raise capital to meet margin calls on stocks they bought on credit. This week the in-hock guys with the worst balance sheets liquidated, and markets worldwide got banged...