Word: marker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late. Frye had been crushed by a 9-ft. slab of rock. His fellow miners took up a collection, which was matched by the mining company, and gave Frye's widow $4,000 for burial expenses. At the foot of the grave in Forest Lawn Cemetery is a marker that reads WE LOVE YOU DAD. His widow worries about her son, who can barely bring himself to talk about the loss. For now, young Michael shows little interest in the mines. The question remains: Will he have a choice...
...STUDENTS are a bit above this, although you might not always think so. Student organizations hold "comps" (or "punches") to weed out the unqualified. Students compete against each other for fellowships, grants, grades. A few students rip pages out of important reference books, or highlight them in black magic marker...
...fear that Israel would pocket any concessions it made without giving ground toward returning the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in the 1967 war. If President Hafez Assad is really backing out now, the other Arabs might follow suit. But he appeared primarily to be laying down a marker -- no agreement on anything without a return of the Golan -- and building pressure on the U.S. to push Israel...
...California's San Mateo County, charges against a man arrested and jailed for a brutal rape were dropped in 1988 after a PCR test showed he could not have been the attacker. A year later another man was arrested in another rape case. Not only did a DNA marker make him a suspect in the unsolved rape, but the victim's jewelry was found in his girlfriend's possession and his fingerprint matched one found on the victim's car. Result: a conviction...
...officials insisted that the July 25 cutoff -- "Marker Day," not D- day, a State Department official helpfully explained -- was never intended to signal the immediate resumption of allied aerial strikes against Iraq. The arrival last Saturday of yet another U.N. inspection team in Baghdad gives Saddam additional breathing space. But the truth is that the current appetite for renewed warfare is slight. Bush does not want to seem trigger-happy when he arrives in Moscow this week for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev. And Arab allies, whose cooperation is crucial to any Middle East peace conference, have signaled their distaste...