Word: monsterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shouldn't be dead," she says, sitting in her living room the day after his funeral. There is a white bucket in the corner with a live frog he caught a few weeks ago. "He liked to fish," she says. "People think he was a monster, but he was nice to me." She says she saw him regularly; he called her Reen instead of Mom, and, she admits, "he was always blaming me" for his problems. "They could have saved him and rehabilitated him," she insists. "When he started taking cars, they should have put him away then and given...
...town does; up and down the Rockies you find municipalities struggling with the problem. Telluride's San Miguel County requires developers to set aside 15% of their sites for affordable housing. In Aspen, where resistance to more new "monster homes" has great zeal, there is a proposal to raise the amount of new development that must go for modest housing from 40% to 60%. In Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where a 14,000-sq.-ft., three-bedroom log cabin is going up, building inspector Dennis Johnson says a campground for low-wage earners might not be a bad idea...
Clinton cannot distance himself from the issue without seeming even more confused in the eyes of the rest of the world. Clinton helped create this monster, and because Haiti is in "our backyard" it won't go away until the administration confronts...
...Monster" Mike Welch took the stage a little later and showed us another side to Blues. At 15 years of age, and the first artist to be signed to the House of Blues label, this boy and his band bring in the country element to Blues. With supreme guitar picking (a turquoise electrical one, no less), he whined and whimpered and returned to the loud heaviness of metal and would then continue into a more mellow sound. His repertoire was wide and varied. While well on the way to becoming a stalwart of the Blues scene, his future looks golden...
...target only the three top members of the ruling military for ouster: Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, Port-au-Prince police chief Michel Francois, and Philippe Biamby, the army chief of staff. "There's a general consensus here," the Pentagon official says, "that if we cut off the head, the monster will die." Whether the trio would be imprisoned or allowed to flee remains an open question. "We can take the thugs out easily," says Edney. "You never can say with no casualties, but I think we could come very close...