Word: length
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, all crews won their races by decisive margins, with the exception of the second novice crew. In their victories, the oarswomen contended with whitecaps and swells which reached a foot and a half at times and strong winds which changed direction throughout the length of the river...
Another big attraction would the Gaza Strip, not the controversial length of sand it is now, but rather a vast crystal wonderland--a meltdown of the sand dunes into an elaborate glass landscape...
Parallels can also be drawn between the KGB and Nicaragua's General Directorate of State Security (DGSE), which keeps effective tabs on the population. Armed with emergency powers that enable security police to detain virtually anyone for any length of time without charges, the DGSE is intimidating, although it is less repressive than the security apparatus in some other Latin American countries. "It is the primary instrument utilized to consolidate the revolution," says a Western diplomat. "Its objective is to identify and neutralize counterrevolutionaries and prevent and neutralize the development of an internal front...
...nearby Latin American democracies--Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama--have tried not to get caught in the cross fire between Managua and Washington. So far their policy has been to maintain passable relations with the Sandinistas and to keep the U.S. at arm's length. In Guatemala, for instance, newly elected President Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo describes his policy as "active neutrality." Some Central American leaders are worried that the U.S. will send in the Marines to overthrow the Sandinistas and thereby plunge the whole region into a conflagration. The Sandinistas do not try to allay these...
...children. Coles seems to think morality is the indefinable and unpredictable result of simply making decisions. A footnote says, "I can only get a bit mystical here, summon the notion of action as 'transcendence,' and, admittedly, risk murkiness and evasion." But why pass along such confusion at book length? As the author writes at one point, "I am, yet again, coming up with nothing very startling...