Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five days, the negotiators, exhausted and increasingly needy of fresh shirts, darted between Washington's Park Hyatt and ANA hotels, from conference room to mezzanine, hallway to bedroom conference call. Every so often, rumpled lawyers would emerge with wildly divergent claims about the progress of the fractious tobacco talks: a settlement was imminent, negotiators had hit the worst impasse since the start of deliberations on April 3, talks were on the brink of collapse. Wait! There's a settlement! (Well, almost...) Finally, at 3:30 p.m. last Friday, a chorus of state attorneys general gathered around a microphone...
...final week, the negotiations spread chaotically over the Park Hyatt and ANA hotels, across 24th Street in downtown Washington. At any given time, half a dozen working subgroups were meeting in conference rooms scattered around the hotel buildings. Smaller clusters of players from each side accumulated in the halls. Moore--"tough, decisive, the dominant figure," a participant called him--meandered through these scattered legal islands like his state's namesake river, picking up information and providing his judgments...
...Kong Special Administrative Region. The Chinese feel that a historic wrong has been righted. It showed in the faces of the elderly pensioners who gathered a few weeks ago in the mainland city of Shenyang for their own humble handover ceremony. The Old People's Singing Group of Xinghur Park caroled their joy at Hong Kong's return: "100 years is a long time/But now Hong Kong is coming home...
...tolerate it. The train pulls out of Harvard Square only after it has nearly amputated some last minute arrival's body part with its unforgiving doors, bursting to the seams with the teeming masses of society. For eighty-five cents, you get social integration, up close and personal. At Park Street, the train clears out and I can finally sit down as the train lurches toward my destination, the next-to-the-last stop on the line...
...from the site of the original, the new Globe is relentlessly authentic, from its brick plinth foundation and English oak beams right up to its thatched roof, which opens to the sky, and maybe the rain, in the center. But the Globe is more than just the ultimate theme park for Shakespeare fanatics. It is also the arena for a fresh and fascinating style of Shakespeare performance...