Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...region might actually be improved. A demonstrably strong Croatia could act as a counterweight to Serbia; a defeat for the Serbs might make them more amenable to negotiation; and a reintegrated Krajina would no longer be a source of instability. As American and European diplomats point out, the map looks much simpler with Krajina in Croat hands, the isolated eastern enclaves in Serb hands and some sort of Bosnia in the middle, making the way to a settlement clearer...
Aroostook Country, ME--If you take a map of the United States and place your thumb over Maine, Aroostook County lies directly under your thumbnail. And where the eastern part of your thumb meets the Canadian border, you'll find Fort Fairfield, home of "Spud-stock...
...map tells you the rest of a containment strategy: 1) a new security relationship with democratic India, now freed from its odd, cold war alliance with the Soviets; 2) renewing the U.S.- Japan alliance, now threatened by a U.S. Administration so hell-bent on selling carburetors in Kyoto that it is blithely jeopardizing the keystone of our Pacific security; and 3) cozying up to the Russians, who, however ornery elsewhere, have a common interest in boxing in China...
...vast briny sea. Most people live in giant docking stations, atolls, built on water. Prowling the sea like Poseidon's angels are the Smokers, bad guys led by the one-eyed Deacon (Dennis Hopper). The Smokers are looking for Enola (Tina Majorino), a 10-year-old with a map tattoo that may point the way to dry land. With her guardian Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn), the girl hitches a ride on the trimaran of an outsider--part man, part fish--known as the Mariner (Costner). If anyone in this scurvy world can help them, he can. Hey, he can do anything...
...architect of loosey-goosey comedy (she directed Fast Times at Ridgemont High and the Look Who's Talking films), Heckerling wants the viewer to like these girls even as she pokes fun at them. The toughest intellectual challenge for Cher and her friends may be deciphering the Thomas Guide map of Los Angeles streets, but they have an ease and a good nature that ultimately, if at times strenuously, endear...