Word: rios
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some excitement, there's Astaire and Ginger's duo debut in "Flying Down to Rio," with a finale in which girls dance on the wings of moving airplanes. For sheer melodic and dancing enjoyment, try the bouncy "Lovely to Look At" sequence from the 1936 "Roberta," a musical with songs by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields. For one of the greatest Gershwin songs sung with heart (if not virtuosity) to Rogers by Astaire, listen to "They Can't Take That Away From Me" from the 1937 "Shall We Dance...
...Neither country has clearly threatened the other's sovereignty. Peru seeks compliance with the 1942 Rio agreement, in which it is granted part of the demarcated jungle region, and has made no move to overthrow the Ecuadoran government. Even with a well-equipped air force, Peru hasn't extended the fighting beyond the strip of land in question...
...before clouds let up; bursting drainage systems shot manhole covers skyward like missiles. Whole towns were isolated. One, Guerneville, 65 miles north of San Francisco, was closed to nonresidents as the Russian River rose toward the rooftops, and 465 citizens were airlifted to higher ground. A rural community called Rio Linda, a satellite of Sacramento, was so badly betrayed by a sandy bed called Dry Creek that a survivor named Rose Marie Simmons could only gasp, "It's real sad, real sad, looking at the place where you've been living, gone." Homes became islands in the sunny coastal necklace...
...year 2000 to support family planning, health care and programs that empower women, on the amply documented proposition that women who control their own lives tend to have fewer children. Even so, if there is no better follow-up to Cairo than there was to the Earth Summit in Rio, don't expect the population bomb to be defused anytime soon...
...first championed by conservative former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. The urban zones -- Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia-Camden, N.J. -- stand to receive $100 million each in flexible grants and tax breaks for local businesses, while the rural zones -- Kentucky Highlands, Mid-Delta in Mississippi, and Texas' Rio Grande Valley -- should get $40 million apiece. In addition, Clinton unveiled second-tier recipients: Los Angeles, Cleveland and 90 smaller areas, which will get grants, but no tax breaks. Clinton said the move was a nod to the fashionable idea that communities should decide how to spend federal money...