Word: imperialists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...image of the U.S. has been of an imperialist country,'' says history teacher Samuel Vargas as he guides his sixth graders around the monument. Watching them, Luis Garcia, a castle guard, offers a different view. Unbuttoning his gray uniform, he reveals a T shirt emblazoned NEW YORK. In fact, since 1988 Chicago has become Garcia's second home. After 25 years guarding the Boy Heroes, he earns only $40 a week. For the past seven years, he has taken a May-to-October leave of absence, hopped a plane to visit his sister, then overstayed his tourist visa to work...
...growth rate, and the government is proud to be hosting a conference expected to attract up to 20,000 participants, including several heads of $ state. Egypt's fundamentalist Muslim sheiks take a different view, however, drawing cheers from their followers when they denounce the meeting as a "Zionist and imperialist assault against Islam...
...BALL, STUPID. In a Costa Rican sweatshop, peons are making sure that the Rawlings baseballs they stitch together for the major leagues are wrapped tight, giving them extra flight potential and allowing the Mariners' Griffey to obliterate home-run records set by two imperialist Yankees, Babe Ruth (60 in 1927) and Roger Maris (61 in '61). Anyway, that's one conspiracy theory. Many pitchers and some batters believe the ball has been spiked, but Rawlings says its tests indicate no change. "The ball isn't juiced," says Griffey. But does he have a better idea of what's going...
...farther abroad, playing a successful part in easing the Bosnian conflict -- most recently by persuading the Serbs to open the airport in the besieged town of Tuzla. While Russians feel a new sense of pride as their mediation efforts pay off, these activities have also provoked speculation that the imperialist Russian bear has awakened from its post-cold war snooze...
Shevardnadze and other near abroad leaders seem convinced that such strong- arm tactics indicate a resurgence of the imperialist impulses that dominated Russia's czarist and communist regimes for centuries. But from Russia's standpoint, such actions are simply part of the diplomatic repertoire of any great nation that, by virtue of its size and wealth, exerts influence over its smaller neighbors...