Word: remains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other students also remain loyal to the plastic carriers...
...bishops issued a similar statement from the pulpit, the Germans deported 40,000 Catholics of Jewish origin. If the Dutch protest cost 40,000 lives, Pius says, "my own could cost the lives of perhaps 200,000 Jews. I cannot take such a great responsibility. It is better to remain silent before the public and do in private all that is possible." He has the pages destroyed...
...conveys a comforting sense of familiarity. Yep, the crenelated towers of Hogwarts look just the same as they did last year. And why not? The school is more than 1,000 years old. The academic and athletic competitions among the four Hogwarts residence houses--Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw--remain as spirited as before. All the students are still mad about Quidditch, a hectic sport involving six goals, four moving balls and two seven-member teams careering 50 ft. or more above ground on flying broomsticks. Harry is the star player for the Gryffindor squad...
...give. One of the world?s largest nuclear arsenals is now in the hands of a small coterie of aides terrified of losing their positions, surrounding and protecting a feeble old man whose power is steadily draining." Despite the frenzy of morbid clairvoyance sweeping the political elite, ordinary Russians remain depressed and indifferent. And that?s hardly surprising. A fourth bomb exploded in a St. Petersburg apartment building Thursday night, killing two people and wounding three others. But that attack wasn?t linked to the others, authorities said. That one was probably gang-related, they opined ?- simply business as usual...
...more correctly, its transformation into a 5,000-member civil defense-style Kosovo Protection Corps. NATO had envisaged the corps as a National Guard equivalent to respond to civilian emergencies, but the KLA viewed it as the nucleus of a national army for the independent Kosovo to which they remain committed. Although NATO has restricted the Kosovo Corps to only 200 weapons, and the Western peacekeeping force has certified that the KLA handed over all weapons required by previous agreements, observers believe the transition is unlikely to stop violence in the province. Many of the weapons handed over were...