Word: roam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Haiti's police; they are being weaned by American trainers from decades of abusive habits, but ordinary citizens continue to despise and distrust them. Despite the confusion and uncertainty, most people seem cautiously satisfied. The poor, who once huddled indoors after dark fearing attacks by government thugs, now roam the streets at all hours. "The people are amazingly patient," says a professor at the national university. "They know it's night and day from three months ago. They can breathe freely now." In Haiti, at last, the stench of evil is fading away...
Then, cutting right to the meat of the issue, the singer rasped at her male audience: "Nowadays you have to treat women nice / Or else they roam around the house with a knife / Or else you'll find you're missing something!" Again, the cheers of busty chorusters...
These beauties were created by U.S. investment bankers, who roam the countryside looking for prospects. They take the old state enterprises and dress them up a little and bring them out as public companies. The ones that trade on the Chinese stock exchange are the diciest, while a slightly better class of company is sold in Hong Kong, and six of the blue chips (they call them red chips) are listed on the New York Stock Exchange...
People can roam around the Union serving area gathering various portions of breakfast without worrying about smashing into fellow diners. At 7:30, the top row of holders still has plenty of glasses, a rare bounty for the Union...
...career there was reportedly interrupted by bouts of mental illness. He returned to Princeton, where he became increasingly withdrawn. Eventually, the mathematics department appointed him a "visiting research collaborator," a post that has allowed the man a university press officer describes as "incredibly brilliant and eccentric" to roam his beloved campus freely for the past 25 years, using its computers whenever he likes, and occasionally its blackboards...