Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even though Lebed, 45, now dresses in pinstripe suits, his bayonet-straight bearing and telegraphic speech immediately mark him as a military man. He is the former commander of Russia's 14th Army in the breakaway Trans-Dniestr region of the republic of Moldova, and he appeals to voters who yearn for a plainspoken general on a white charger to put things in order...
...often thought there was a reason the Puritans had such strict laws: The weather made them do it. The French philosopher Montesquieu suggested that climate and other environmental factors help determine forms of government. I would go a step further and say that climate determines a region's personality. After all, when you're walking around in the 17th century with nary a fox skin covering your shoulders, who wants to stop and say hello...
...movements and in the music itself are not in the Fat Fast at all, but rather in the Middle East Iran and India-places such as Amad, Istahan, Agra and Delhi. Only the last movement. "Ad Lib on Nippon" is a musical reaction to an East Asian region. Geographical discrepancies aside, the synthesis of Duke Ellington's traditional sound with the musical emanations from the Middle Last and India is a glorious one. The band on Friday night was able to bring out some of the richness of Ellington's masterwork without even approximating the infinitely intricate shades characteristic...
Said Chomsky: "Any time there is an Israeli atrocity [against Palestinians] they can impose curfew to deter any Palestinian reaction." He also said that there are now huge roadway construction programs underway in the West Bank so that Israelis will continue to be able to drive around the region without encountering Palestinians...
...stand before you with one overriding commitment," Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres told a joint session of Congress today, "to yield to no threat, to stop at no obstacle in negotiating the hurdles ahead, in seeking security for our people, peace for our land, tranquility for our region." The next step in the Middle East peace process: Syria, where negotiations over the control of the Golan Heights remain deadlocked. After a six month absence while working on the Bosnia peace plan, Secretary of State Warren Christopher will return his attention to the Middle East, departing Thursday for Damascus, Jerusalem, Egypt...