Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Workers in the old-line "sweat and toil" industries, which once symbolized America's economic might, are now suffering the worst unemployment. Stretching across the nation's manufacturing heartland, from the foothills of the Alleghenies, west to the Mississippi River and north to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, stands an idle army of the jobless...
...Raquel Welch, 39, sometimes reluctant cinematic sex symbol; and André Weinfeld, 33, French film writer and director, whom she met two years ago on location in France; she for the third time, he for the first; at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, the southernmost tip of the Baja California peninsula...
...believe I have been all my life a moderate man. What should I do more to prove it? With my colleagues, I was instrumental in signing a peace treaty with Egypt. My colleagues and I gave back to Egypt the whole Sinai Peninsula, including two airfields considered among the most sophisticated in the world. We gave back the Alma oilfield, which we discovered and drilled. We got a fourth of our annual oil consumption from that field at a cost of $150 million. We returned it for the sake of peace. I may blush when I say this, but when...
...flee to Boston where they could remain safe behind royal lines, and Cambridge became the boundary with the British Empire. That boundary was reinforced in the spring 1775, when, after starting the Revolutionary War in Lexington and Concord, British soldiers retreated into Boston. Behind them, Minutemen closed off the peninsula, camping 16,000 strong on Cambridge Common for months. When the soldiers needed barracks, Harvard agreeably moved to Concord for about a year. When the soldiers needed baths, they took them in the Charles River, often Sutton notes, "with disregard for modesty." General George Washington arrived June 17 to take...
...children in Africa today who are genitally mutilated (excised and infibulated). This was discussed at a World Health Organization Seminar in Khartoum in February 1979, with ten African and Middle Eastern countries participating, as the operations are also performed in the Middle East, in Egypt and on the Arab Peninsula. It should be added that Moslem girls in Malaysia and parts of Indonesia are also subjected to sexual operations of a less drastic kind than those performed by over 200 ethnic groups living in more than 26 countries in Africa...