Word: polese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The first Beatles album in 25 years won't hit U.S. shelves until next week, but first-dibs stores in London -- where lines stretched around the block today -- report sightings of plenty of Americans who apparently didn't want to wait. Russians, Poles and Western Europeans also crowded among the...
To hear politicians of any stripe talk about the state of our souls is enough to make one cringe. First of all, who are they? What moral qualifications do they bring to the work of the spirit? Upon hearing he had been named Prime Minister, Disraeli exclaimed, "I have climbed...
Also in the 1970s, Bechtel started working in the nuclear industry and soon dominated nuclear construction projects in the United States. But Bechtel's reputation for product quality in developing oil pipelines was not matched by its performance in building nuclear waste disposal facilities. The leaky Taranpur nuclear facility in...
Russia, facing a mounting outcry to keep its weapons-grade plutonium under tighter control, said it had arrested smugglers on its own soil. Police said they had detained three men Aug.12 in Kaliningrad, a western outpost on the Polish border, after they tried to sell a 132-pound container of...
USAir Flight 1016, carrying 55 people, crashed early Saturday evening while trying to land at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in a storm. At least 18 people were confirmed dead, and witnesses reported numerous injuries. The DC-9 jet, en route from Columbia, S.C., struck trees and telephone poles before hitting...