Word: snails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could not access the location of the article, understandable because there is no telling what would happen if African snail smuggling information were to fall in the wrong hands. With no way out of my predicament, I turned to help from the man sitting next...
...Protestant victory that established England's rule over Ireland. Protestant marchers will be out en masse, and unless the police can prevent further clashes, Hillenbrand says, Catholic-Protestant relations could relapse to the hostility of the last decade. Peace talks in Belfast, which have been proceeding at a snail's pace for the past month, have been suspended pending the outcome of the marches. -- Anita Hamilton
...electronic funds transfers. Among the many reasons: E-mail sent via the Internet arrives instantly, provided it is addressed correctly, while the post office is lucky to deliver 80% of first- class letters within three days -- an average that has caused the netheads of cyberspace to dub it ``snail mail.'' Moreover, one never reads about thousands of electronic messages being misplaced for years and turning up at the wrong address...
...comic exaggeration was a serious message. The noises coming from Bono and many of his fellow Republican signers of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" signal a radical shift in Congress's attitude toward environmental issues-a shift that may bode ill for the health of snail darters, spotted owls and even the human species...
Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the Democrats' parliamentary ace and self-appointed guardian of the Senate's deliberative role, launched an all-out effort to slow down what he called the Republican "steamroller." Byrd's filibuster-like maneuvers reduced to a snail's pace the Senate's debate of a bill that would restrict the ability of Congress to impose unfunded regulatory mandates on the states. His exploitation of an arcane rule regarding committee meeting times also forced the Judiciary Committee to halt-if for only one day-its consideration of a balanced-budget amendment. Majority leader Bob Dole...