Word: interior
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Restraining their curiosity, the trio crawled back outside and resealed the tunnel entrance. "Not only to keep people out," Chauvet explains, "but to return the airflow to what it had been before; a change in the interior climate could ruin whatever was inside." Six days later they returned with better lighting and plastic sheets that they spread about to avoid disturbing artifacts on the cavern floors...
Since December, plywood boards and black plastic sheets have covered the bagel shop's exterior windows and doors. The interior entrance stays locked...
...enigmatic, even to himself. He lives in a substantial house he inherited from his mother and maintains an air of jovial respectability with his co-workers. When he recalls the other young women he has befriended, he does not allow himself to think of what happened to them. His interior monologues are conducted in euphemisms. Pondering the arrival of the Irish girl, "he finds himself exhilarated by the circumstances that have been presented to him, and only regrets that the ordained brevity of this relationship is an element in those circumstances also...
...city -- increased the pressure for a quick victory. Grachev moved up his D-day to New Year's Eve. The buildup of forces was halted, and local commanders had to go in with whatever units they could cobble together. Some were only at half-strength, and others were Interior Ministry troops, a kind of national guard used for internal security. "There was no joint training," says Sherman Garnett, a former head of Russian affairs at the Pentagon in Washington, "and the command was divided...
...allies among the democratic political parties. He is talking tough these days, and when he drops out of sight, he leaves things in the hands of a small group of loyal aides and a Security Council, dominated by the "power ministers," such men as Defense Minister Pavel Grachev and Interior Minister Victor Yerin. Some veteran Moscow watchers are reminded of the last year of the Mikhail Gorbachev era, when the father of glasnost and perestroika tried to crack down on independence-minded Lithuania. Others watch Yeltsin take the lead, then fade, and recall Leonid Brezhnev's lingering, fatal lassitude...