Word: maines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrow, potholed road was one of the main routes used by Vietnamese forces when they invaded Cambodia in late 1978 and ended nearly four years of Khmer Rouge terror, installing a pro-Hanoi government...
However, the store is far enough removed from the main action of the Square that it does not often attract large crowds. Although it has been open since April, Barillari is still one of the area's best kept secrets. So well kept, in fact, that at about 4:30 p.m. yesterday, there were only five customers in the store...
...main reason for the University's inability to fulfill its plans is inexcusable. Arturo Morales-Carrion, perhaps the most prolific Puerto Rican historian of his time, was the professor the University wanted all along. But Morales-Carrion had been sick for the past few years and died this summer. Without Morales-Carrion, Gen Ed 154 could no longer exist, the University said...
This is irresponsible on the University's part. To use the excuse of Morales-Carrion's death as the main reason to not offer Gen Ed 154 after saying it intended to search for other professors besides Morales-Carrion reveals a significant flaw in the University's efforts. It is as if the University simply does not care when or if a course on Puerto Rican Studies will ever be offered...
...officials, including Republican Governor Bob Martinez, were stunned. Florida's farmers, who harvest nearly half the cane sugar produced in the U.S. and contribute $2 billion a year to the state economy, cried foul. In the past month the battle intensified when the South Florida Water Management District, the main defendant in the suit, proposed a new pollution-control plan aimed at persuading U.S. Attorney Dexter Lehtinen to back off. Lehtinen's reply: "We are going forward with the litigation aggressively." The battle may drag on for years and end up as the most expensive environmental lawsuit ever...