Word: lima
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Orlando Lima, the Radio Shack store manager,said the VCR was worth $300. He said two similarincidents had occurred within a one-week periodabout a year and a half ago, but nothing like thishas happened since...
...navy base on the mainland. Fujimori staged the media event to draw attention to the successes of his war on terrorism and to justify his "government of emergency" declared a year ago. The boasting did not go unanswered. In a violent response, Shining Path guerrillas set off bombs in Lima and ambushed a patrol in the countryside, killing seven police, three soldiers and a civilian...
...culture interacts with other generations, with another culture, and also about the inner life of the writers. My only fear is that writers delegate themselves to this corner bodega. To escape the provincialism of roots and be expansive in the manner of a wonderful writer like [Jose] Lezama Lima, or [Jorge Luis] Borges or, for that matter, someone like Rudyard Kipling. And if I can find a readership in that way, then I think it will take the shackles of being politically and sociologically correct off of writers that may want to do different things, but don't because they...
...Secretary Michael Stone have handed their Commander in Chief a leg up in the pivotal states of Michigan and Ohio. By lobbying hard, they persuaded their friends in KUWAIT to agree to buy 236 heavy M1A2 Abrams tanks. The tanks are made by General Dynamics in Warren, Michigan, and Lima, Ohio. The $1.5 billion Kuwaiti deal could mean thousands of jobs. And since it has been consummated just in time, maybe thousands of votes...
...coated groupies carrying signs that read "I was a teenage lima bean" and "We need to do more research, please send money" paraded into the auditorium before a crowd of about 100 "normal" people...