Word: miles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Unless people feel that they will be valued over the long term, they may be more reluctant to go the extra mile, to think a little harder, to contribute. In the same way, if the employer feels this is not a long-term relationship, the employer may be more reluctant to invest in on-the-job training of that worker. There are companies that traditionally were very, very careful about laying off workers because they were so concerned about their corporate culture. Now they just fire people, sometimes with very little notice...
...returned Friday evening, the town had been engulfed in gunfire. Serbian troops had launched a full-scale attack, firing rockets from the south and tank guns from the north. "It appears to be the final assault on Srebrenica," said one U.N. official. The Serbs closed to within a mile of the town, then held their fire. Though residents and refugees joyously crowded around the huge white relief trucks, shouting and weeping, the shipment did not carry enough to provide for all of them. "We need to get another one in right away," said a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner...
Government officials insist the Saddam River project, a 350-mile canal linking Baghdad with the Shatt al-Arab waterway south of Basra, is intended only to add 1.5 million acres to Iraq's arable land. Arif al-Delaimi, chief engineer on the project, says the southern portion of the canal was completed in the 1980s and the marshes have been drying up ever since. Instead of driving the inhabitants out, he says, the government has been resettling them around artificial lakes. But Andrew Whitley, executive director of Middle East Watch says, "The land under the water is of little agricultural...
...last morning, Dr. David Gunn, 47, woke up in a good mood. "He was happier than I'd seen him in a long time," says Paula Leonard, his girlfriend, in whose apartment he stayed when he came to Pensacola. He did so regularly, another stop on his 1,000-mile, six-day-a-week schedule of performing abortions at seven clinics in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Gunn had reason to feel depressed: in the middle of an acrimonious divorce, he virtually lived out of his white Buick Skylark and encountered antiabortion protests and threats nearly everywhere he practiced. Paula remembers...
...trying to bring in food for his wife and five children. Four days later, other trekkers carried his emaciated body, his nostrils still plugged with ice, off the mountain on a primitive bier of branches. At least 50 people have frozen to death along the 26-mile route. Some of their bodies and those of fallen pack ponies are visible along the eerie moonlit trail; spring will reveal the rest...