Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe it's just that in Utah, joining a social order devoted to clean living doesn't exactly distinguish you. Firebombing meat and leather outlets, using pipe bombs on a fur-trading office and setting minks free, however--as Straight Edgers and closely linked animal liberationists have been accused of doing over the past several years--tend to drop you from consideration for membership in the church choir...
...there were still a British Empire, one could imagine Hugh Grant bestriding one of its far-flung ramparts, trying to bring order to unruliness. Mostly that would be a matter of self-deprecating humor, romantic chivalry, honorable business dealings, and, of course, irresistibly floppy hair...
...aerial spraying in Bolivia and Peru" [WORLD, Aug. 9]. It is important to clarify that coca eradication in Bolivia is done by manual means and not through the spraying of chemical defoliants. The use of herbicides or any other chemical agent is strictly prohibited under Bolivian law in order to preserve the ecological balance. No spraying of any sort is done in Bolivia in connection with coca eradication. MARCELO PEREZ-MONASTERIOS Ambassador, Embassy of Bolivia Washington...
...border nation of Kyrgyzstan, and both emphasized the need to build a common front against the U.S. Jiang warned of a "new display of hegemony relying on force (that) has already drawn concern on the international scene," while Yeltsin complained that "some nations are trying to build a world order that would be convenient only for them, ignoring that the world is multi-polar...
...President Thabo Mbeki?s government is committed to fiscal discipline in order to attract desperately needed foreign investment, but its constituents are under mounting pressure in an economy showing no more than 2 percent growth ?- and suffering painful blows in such key sectors as gold mining. "The increase demanded by the striking workers really isn?t much more than the inflation rate," says TIME South Africa bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. "The government may be forced to compromise and tighten the belt in other areas, such as military expenditure." Absent the moral authority of retired president Nelson Mandela, Mbeki may find...