Word: reopening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...short run both Presidents benefit from their decision to reopen formal talks in Geneva, set to begin next week. Kim takes the steam out of the rising crisis over his apparent effort to build nuclear weapons and diverts the world's attention to what Washington might offer him at the bargaining table. For his part, Clinton wins a respite from his effort to round up support for U.N. sanctions against North Korea -- a campaign that was not going well. If Clinton has to try for sanctions again later, he will be able to say to reluctant countries like China...
...Nation of Islam operates restaurants, bakeries and fish markets. Members tithe, and some have donated for decades to buy farmland, a scheme Farrakhan pledges to finally put into action this summer. He vows to open a $3 million restaurant-and-bakery complex on Chicago's South Side, reopen a Nation of Islam supermarket and build a printing plant for the Final Call big enough to rent space. He recently bought a Chicago "business center" to house management and media operations as he expands into TV. He already has Nation of Islam bookstores that do a brisk business in tapes...
Other faithful Louie's customers are satisfied merely to have their nearest convenience store reopen...
...worship culture -- they flocked onto commuter trains. Metrolink, the city's embryonic light-rail system, reported a tripling of morning passengers, from 10,000 to 30,000, on its four lines, and last week managed to retain 70% of the new ridership even after freeway detours began to reopen. The most popular by far was the 40-mile ride north to Santa Clarita, a new bedroom community cut off by the fractured Golden State Freeway; its daily ridership jumped from...
...past reform campaigns against drugs, smoking, pollution and drunken driving, an informal alliance of opinion leaders sees a chance to break gridlock and bad habits and reopen a national debate. While denying any move toward censorship, such radio stations as WBLS in New York City have stopped playing songs that might encourage violence and misogyny. Others have banned the inflammatory music of the Gangsta Rappers. Last week manufacturers of video games agreed to place voluntary warning labels on packages that would rate the violent content...