Word: sankes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...between Hamas and its foes has again been joined. The blast in Ramat Gan, which killed six Israelis, and now the one in Jerusalem have conjured up images of last fall and early winter, when Palestinian attacks, mostly suicide bombings, claimed 53 victims over four months. The violence nearly sank the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, as Israeli public opinion turned against expanding Palestinian self-rule. Now the question is again alive: Will the bloodletting drown the goodwill? "The peace process will go on," says a U.S. State Department official, "but how long can the Israelis tolerate these attacks?" Israel...
...local level. Furious representatives of the long-distance industry swung from supporting the House bill to actively lobbying against it. On Friday a group of small long-distance carriers held a news conference with consumer groups to attack the bill. (Disagreements over the Bells' entry into long distance sank a similar measure last year after it had passed the House...
...location nightmare of Universal Pictures' adventure movie has been assiduously chronicled: how the Waterworld shoot in Hawaii was threatened by crew injuries and tsunami warnings; how a huge set sank toward the end of shooting; how the budget ballooned from $100 million to what now may be twice that; how the star, Kevin Costner, and the director, Kevin Reynolds, fought over various aspects of the film until Reynolds stormed out during the editing. Things can go wrong in movies; it's part of the gamble. On Waterworld, everything went wrong...
...there was ever a miracle out there to trounce the Kiwis, it's the Australians. After all, they've already supplied one miracle: making the Challenger finals after their boat SANK (no type here) in under two minutes, and everyone survived...
...does raise anew the oddly unnerving specter of Carter, in his sensible shoes and armor of self-righteousness, tackling the world's diplomatic problems one by one. How does this private citizen, whose own presidency sank under accusations of weakness and appeasement, manage to make himself a force in world diplomacy...