Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guests for a flute of his favorite pink Laurent Perrier champagne at the nearby presidential palace. Like an amiable monarch amid courtiers, he bows gracefully to kiss a woman's hand and banters politely with a local Jesuit priest before herding everyone across an immense terrace toward a buffet laden with lobster and thick steaks. In the 100 degrees heat, a wave of satisfaction seems to envelop the presidential party, a sense that all is still well in this remote hinterland far from the chaos afflicting the rest of the country...
Most important, Clinton understands that the best foreign policy begins by guaranteeing economic security at home. As he said in Los Angeles recently, "An anemic, debt-laden economy undermines our diplomacy, makes it harder for us to secure favorable trade agreements and compromises our ability to finance essential military actions...
...Screaming Trees spent the last eight years in Ellensburg, Wash. recording feedback-laden grungy tunes for independent labels like SST and Velvetone and endured an obscurity they never deserved. Even though their major label debut Uncle Anesthesia ranked high among the year's most critically acclaimed, the Trees' insolent musical attack forced them into the shadow of more accessible stars Nirvana and Pearl Jam, who stormed sales charts during the Seattle/Sub Pop Revolution...
...darkest fears of all those who live in the flight paths of airports were realized on the quiet evening of Oct. 4, when an El Al 747-200F cargo crashed into a 10-story low-income apartment building in southeast Amsterdam. Laden with fuel and 114 tons of commercial cargo, the freighter had taken off from Schiphol Airport at 6:22 p.m., headed for Tel Aviv. Six minutes later, veteran pilot Isaac Fuchs issued a distress call, reporting a fire in a right-wing engine. As he circled back for the airport, dumping fuel in preparation for an emergency...
Tips are not uncommon in the hotel business. But few are as generous as the one Marriott shareholders received last week. In a financial maneuver that is part of a growing trend, Marriott Corp. said it would spin off its thriving hotel-management division from its debt-laden real estate operations and would award stockholders special tax-free shares in the new company. A number of firms, most recently Sears, that had caught diversification fever during the 1980s are now scrambling to sell ill-fitting or troublesome units...