Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, paying a first-ever visit to the Indian subcontinent, thrust himself into the middle of a long-running border dispute. India should be restored to its pre-1947 boundaries, he declared, a fiat that would effectively wipe Pakistan and Bangladesh off the map...
...book in the coming months, calls himself an "economic patriot" who will fight to preserve American workers' standard of living. He promises to protect American borders against illegal immigration. Buchanan is so hard right that he is staking out a position on that nether region of the political map where right and left meet. Sometimes he sounds like a Rust Belt, union Democrat. "The [real] income of American workers has gone down 20% in 20 years. Now that is an outrage, especially when there are many Americans who made out like bandits at the same time,'' he bellowed into...
...available in U.S. autos. As of last summer, Oldsmobile buyers could opt for GPS receivers, with accompanying digitized road maps, built right into their dashboards. A motorist lost in the San Fernando Valley can tap into GPS and get an instant position on the digitized map, accurate to the length of a minivan. At its current $1,995 price, GPS is still an expensive option, but rental-car companies are very interested. As prices eventually come down, these locators could become common features in cars...
...play opens in 1833, at a schoolhouse in the rural Irish township of Ballybeg. British soldiers settle in to map and rename Ireland, forcibly replacing Gaelic place names with English and suppressing the Irish language...
...Russia doesn't have the roads that Americahas," he said. "Look at the map of Russia and tryto calculate how many workers would be needed tobuild [the roads...