Word: mountained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...half-mile flat that leads into the "cow-path," which is a 200 meter stretch that can be likened to a pit of quick sand. The unfortunate runners then face their first real challenge, known as "bitch hill" to masochistic course veterans, which is in effect a mountain side that never ends...
...Port-au-Prince, Shelton has become the de facto proconsul; his 10th Mountain Division is for the moment Haiti's replacement army, civil service, utility company and public relations firm. In the countryside, 31 U.S. Army Green Beret A Teams, each made up of about 12 soldiers, have quietly fanned out to key towns and villages. They are holding town meetings in Pilate and Plaisance. Further south in Hinche, Special Forces soldiers just completed "Operation Light Switch," getting a generator up and running to restore some power. "The people are now out in the streets," said a secret report sent...
...Oedipus-like, with its influence; he is the Third Man, a shadowy figure, beside that vivid duumvirate of his friends Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. But unlike them, he made his life in Europe. After some gestation in one of the wombs of the postwar American avant-garde, Black Mountain College in North Carolina, he went to Italy in 1957 and has lived there ever since...
...revenues were in line with -- or above -- projections in 43 states. The even better news for taxpayers is that many states with budget surpluses are planning tax cuts for fiscal '95. The taxpayers most likely to gain from these plans are those living in the South and Rocky Mountain regions, where the Conference Board says states are most economically sound...
...Paul, the youthful mayor of Port-au-Prince who has been in hiding from the Haitian junta for the past three years, emerged to reclaim his office last Thursday, he brought along a kind of personal insurance policy: 40 American MPs and soldiers from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Under their watchful gaze, the man who is second in popularity to President Jean- Bertrand Aristide was able to deliver an emotional speech celebrating the end of military rule and admonishing his fellow Haitians to exercise patience, mercy and restraint. His only rhetorical barb was reserved for junta leader...