Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The main winner will be British Airways, now the world's biggest international carrier. The transaction fulfills its long-held desire to enter the American market, fly into more U.S. cities and pick up more American travelers for its transatlantic flights. Although foreign ownership of American airlines is limited to...
Wet weather is such an inescapable part of life in the Pacific Northwest that the Seattle tourism industry touts it as "liquid sunshine." This year, though, the slogan will have to be shelved in the face of the worst regionwide drought in decades. Along with other legendarily soaked cities like...
The real danger to spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest, says Agriculture Secretary Edward Madigan, may not be loggers destroying habitats but interbreeding, which weakens bloodlines. Mating with barred owls means offspring aren't purebreds. Environmentalists say such matings are probably rare.
This was not the way the script was supposed to turn out. Dave Johnson and Dan O'Brien, the rival U.S. decathlon stars who have been battling for three years to see who would capture the "world's greatest athlete" laurels in Barcelona, last week met on a rain-soaked...
Appropriately, the book's opening essays by Alexander Cockurna and Mike Davis recreate the dizzying sensation of that approach by surveying the economy of the Downtown area. While perhaps a bit dry and statistical, these essays paint a fascinating portrait of a region filled almost exclusively with immigrants from Latin...