Word: inland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese know they have to wipe off stains on their hands before they can shake hands with Bill Clinton," says an Asian diplomat. "The paroles will help, but more are needed to do the trick." Perhaps dangling petrodollars might. China has opened up its remote but resource-rich inland areas to foreign oil companies, inviting U.S. oil firms to join the exploration of Xinjiang's Tarim Basin, an area as big as Texas...
...other way." A unified market has not changed the German rules, but now inspections take place on Kastner's premises. He had to spend $62,000 for new software to calculate value-added tax, which is now done in-house. "The single market has merely pushed the border inland," he said. "Brussels bureaucrats want to know how many kilos of this, how many crates of that. Before, I needed half an hour to do paperwork for one truck picking up produce in Paris. Today a specialist needs a full hour for each truck...
...possibility of confrontation will increase sharply when the foreign troops push inland toward the famine belt. The situation to the south, in Kismayu, was grim. Sixty people were killed last week during clashes between two local factions, and all but a handful of relief workers had to be evacuated. Of mounting concern is what the thugs plan to do once the foreign troops reach these cities. Will they turn their firepower on the soldiers? Or will they continue running as the U.S. units advance, pushing into villages that until now have been spared the worst of the fighting...
...Takano, a fourth generation Japanese-American, is running in an inland district that was settled in two waves: in the 1930s by Grapes-of-Wrathian whites escaping the Dust Bowl and again in the '70s and '80s by young middle class whites and Hispanics looking for California real estate they could afford. One hundred miles inland, California, so the saying goes, is Arkansas...
...floods that have been building up in Pakistan over the past month have wrought one of the worst natural disasters there in 45 years. More than 2,000 people have drowned, and innumerable farm animals have been left floating in the polluted waters of a vast brown inland sea that has covered thousands of villages, the nation's ! major cotton and food crops, and a collapsed infrastructure of roads, power lines and bridges...