Word: northerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Northern Div. Tournament (at UMass), vs. Iona, 10 a.m. vs. Queens, 1:30 p.m. vs. Lehman...
...Northern Div. Tournament vs. St. Francis (at USMMA), 3 p.m. at USMMA...
...vengeance, gradually rendering all but a third of the 39-sq.-mi. British colony uninhabitable. Two-thirds of the population of 12,000 have fled, and thousands more have abandoned their homes, often with little but the clothes on their back, for overcrowded shelters in the comparatively safe northern region. Plymouth, the capital, has been reduced to rubble. The airport is closed, and the only access to the island is by ferry or helicopter...
Crouched in the undergrowth around the village of Samaki in northern Cambodia are several dozen men wearing protective vests and visors, looking like alien invaders. They skim the ground in front of them with metal detectors, and occasionally one raises an arm, a whistle is blown, and everyone moves back carefully. The land mine just discovered is detonated remotely, an explosion jogs the ground, and the field officer gives the all-clear. Then the Cambodians, who work for a British-based de-mining organization called Halo Trust, resume methodically clearing the heavily mined land around the village, one square foot...
...longer prepared to accept salaries below the industry average. Elsewhere, a slew of collective-bargaining confrontations is upcoming, but none with the public impact of UPS. President Clinton averted a potential strike by Amtrak workers last week. The United Food and Commercial Workers, representing 44,000 supermarket workers in Northern California, has a contract expiring in February. "UPS was important," says David Smith, public-policy director for the AFL-CIO, "but it doesn't make any of these negotiations a walk in the park...