Word: saws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hasty Pudding Theatre, the fake fighting on the stage got out of hand and real blood was spilled. "It didn't hurt," Weil recounts of the stage fight gone bad. "I just whirled around as usual. I did everything as choreographed, and then as I was bent over, I saw pools of blood on the stage." But even after the incident, he decided to keep performing--after all, it was only the beginning of the second act. "As long as I wasn't woozy or anything, I had to keep going. I owed it to the audience and the company...
...Last card turned out to be a Queen, exactly what we were looking for. A straight. Managed to bluff three players out of the game, but put it all in once we saw the queen down. We drop one more player out and rack in $2.25 on the one dollar investment (a 225 percent profit). It was a good night at the table." Tad has become the unequivocal hero of the night, in a financial sense at least...
...free trade still hold: It promotes growth and interdependence and helps developing countries improve their standards of living. However, globalization has a powerful impact on questions of labor and environmental protection, and those concerned about these effects will not be persuaded by only economic arguments. The protesters in Seattle saw the WTO and free trade as representative of interests fundamentally alien to their own; the coalition for free trade can only be rebuilt taking these concerns into account, with adequate attention to the interests of workers and the environment...
...told me how when he was a three-year-old boy living in Vieques, a Navy representative came to his house informing his mother that her house and land had been expropriated by the Navy. She was given 24 hours to leave her home. The following day Zenon saw his mother weeping inconsolably as a Navy bulldozer toppled their home. Like Zenon, more than 10,000 people were driven from their land and forced to relocate to make room for the new military installations in Vieques which would end up controlling 72 percent of Vieques' territory...
...incompetence resulted in the April 19 death of David Sanes, the struggle of the Vieques people caught the eye of international journalists all over the world, and all political parties and civic groups of Puerto Rico joined under the slogan "Not a single bomb dropped in Vieques." Viequenses saw that for once in three generations they had a fighting chance to rid themselves of a Navy that had totally disregarded their well-being for 58 years...