Word: maps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city council president George Carlton told a reporter, after the horror became public in his hometown, Sylacauga, Ala. He echoed what was said in Jasper, Texas, a year ago. Few people then had ever heard of Jasper. A week ago, even fewer could have pointed out Sylacauga on a map. A tiny city of 13,000, halfway between Birmingham and Montgomery, Sylacauga was known for its white marble quarries, textile mills and ice-cream factory. But last week Sylacauga, like Jasper, became a chapter in the recent history of hatred...
...large wooden map of the Azores dominates one wall of the pizzeria, and the other is covered with pictures of the islands, showing green and blue lagoons, white churches and majestic volcanic mountain ranges...
...organic phenomenon but complex accumulations of strength, alliances and enmities. And the passion for nationhood has swung between eras of consolidation and fragmentation: the single-state world of the Roman Empire; the 500-odd nations of the 1500s Renaissance. In the post-cold war age, people impatient with the map they've inherited appear to be caught in between. A globalized economy is melting down the relevance of nationhood at the same time that the dispossessed's unrealized yearnings to be a state are gaining legitimacy...
...group's recommendations are consistent with "competition principles" articulated in a recent resolution that reads like a driving map for the antitrust charges against Microsoft, singling out practices like "vaporware" and "discriminatory licensing" that work against software "innovation." MORE...
...initial expectation had been that Ashby would be found guilty of ?flat-hatting,? or reckless flying, in what seemed to be an open-and-shut case. But the defense convincingly argued that the ski lift was not on Ashby?s official map, that the jet?s altitude gauge malfunctioned and that Ashby believed speed and altitude restrictions in the area to be more lenient than they were. None of the defense arguments will make much of a difference to the local residents or to the large segment of Italy?s population that is left-leaning and opposed to an American...