Word: northerner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...five feet tall and played softball and tennis in high school. She says that one of the reasons she likes rugby is that it challenges her physically more than other sports she has played. To illustrate the physical dimension, she described an incident that occurred when Harvard played the Northern Virginia club team over spring break...
...After we beat Northern Virginia, which was much bigger than us," she says, "these two women, both around 6'2" 200, came up to talk to me. They thought it was the funniest thing that someone my size played. One of them was a house painter, and one worked for Arthur D. Little. They claimed I was 4'11", and asked me a lot of short questions, like if I can see the top of the fridge...
...that would make it more difficult to create ANFO bombs. Some have called for bans on the sale of ammonium nitrate except to licensed buyers. Or, less drastically, the government could require the inclusion of inert materials that make the compound less explosive--as is done in England and Northern Ireland. That would inconvenience American farmers, who would have to use more fertilizer to get the same result. But it might also end up saving lives...
...magnitude of the crisis was becoming clear, but Clinton still hadn't seen a television. He listened as Ciller insisted that Turkey's attack on Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq was a retaliation against terrorism. Her words were eerily resonant. When the meeting ended, the President finally had a long look at what terrorism had wrought in the middle of America. The images of children being pulled from the rubble made him "beyond angry," as his communications director Mark Gearan put it. Clinton's first reaction, he later told a top aide, was a desire to "put my fist...
...preserve our own national independence. We are located next to a big neighbor whom our ancestors fought. Our nation was under Chinese domination for more than 1,000 years. The latest incident was in 1979, when China sent more than 500,000 troops to attack our country on the northern border. In 1979 we won over China in the border war, but not because of our comparative advantage in military force. We won the war because we had the right to defend our country. I would like to emphasize our consistent policy of creating peace and stability not only...