Word: mile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...multinational force that senior U.S. officials are brandishing at Haiti's intransigent military junta. The move is the first serious attempt to enforce the embargo, which military sources say is violated daily. The most common contraband: gasoline -- 40,000 to 50,000 gallons of which flow across the 186-mile border every...
...week long, U.S. officials tried their best to discourage Cubans from setting out on the treacherous 90-mile crossing to Florida. But it was clear that American threats stood little chance of prevailing over Cuba's hungers. By the time President Clinton went on television to reverse nearly 30 years of Cuban policy, he was characterizing the exodus as "a cold-blooded attempt to maintain the Castro grip on Cuba." Unwilling to be blackmailed by the threat of a humanitarian disaster, Clinton revoked the special status Cuban refugees have long enjoyed, which guarantees them asylum if they reach U.S. shores...
...sure they will make it to Florida. A few years ago, they would have spent a year in jail for "illegal departure" if they were picked up by Cuban patrol boats. This time they knew it would be smooth sailing as the tide pulled them out beyond the 12-mile limit into the Straits of Florida. That is, smooth sailing against Castro. They had yet to survive the sharks and storms...
Dante II is the brainchild of Bares and William ("Red") Whittaker, the principal research scientist at Carnegie Mellon's robotics lab and a legend among robot designers. Whittaker helped design the machine that cleaned up the Three Mile Island reactor after its near meltdown in 1979, and he oversaw development of a system that will automatically inspect the heat-resistant tiles on NASA's space shuttles...
...North Carolina federal court upheld a 160-mile-long, serpentine-shaped congressional district designed to ensure a majority black electorate. In a headline-grabbing voting-rights opinion, the Supreme Court last year ordered that the district be re-examined. The latest decision, coming on the heels of a contrary Louisiana federal ruling that struck down another black district, virtually assures that the practice of racial gerrymandering will be reviewed by the high court once again...