Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hearing Harvard officials] talked about most of the land over there being water-logged and they looked at moving it but couldn't," Lipsey said...
Tudjman: "His major objective is to recover the last sliver of his land not under his control, eastern Slavonia. He probably wants to cleanse his land of non-Croats as well. He wants to control, at a distance, the Croatian parts of Bosnia...
Everyone has agreed on a roughly 49-51 split of Bosnia's land between the Serb entity and the federation. But fierce disputes rage about who gets which specific pieces of territory. The width of a strip of land called the Posavina Corridor, which connects Serbia with the Bosnian Serbs, is the most contentious of these quarrels...
...taken on a disturbing gray patina. And his face appeared strangely bloated--"puffy," in the words of one American official present. In the minds of the CIA analysts, it all pointed to one thing: Yeltsin was poised on the threshold of another bout of heart trouble that could swiftly land him in the hospital, or worse...
...emanating from the left and opposed them too. Spoon-fed the doctrines of literary Modernism--to be profound is to be obscure, the highest art is only to be understood by a cadre of initiates--Amis made rude noises. Coming across the claim that T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is "the century's most influential poem" and "a supremely important poem," he snapped, "Importance isn't important. Only good writing is." Many of his pronouncements are debatable. But Amis produced reams of good writing, and he was and is important...