Word: southeasterners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ethnic Albanians showered NATO forces with flowers. One man said it was the first time in 10 weeks that he had emerged from his basement hiding place. The U.S. has pledged a contingent of 7,000 soldiers to the Kosovo Force (KFOR); the soldiers and marines will man the southeastern corner of the province. European officials believe that Kosovo may have the world's highest concentration of buried mines. The first wave of KFOR troops will have to defuse them before the refugees can drive their tractors and cars back...
...racing continues to be the hottest, fastest-growing sport in America, generating $2 billion in revenues and drawing gazillions in sponsorship money. In TV ratings, NASCAR racing blows away every major sport but pro football. With California-born Gordon as its poster boy, NASCAR is expanding beyond its Southeastern roots, going after the wine-and-cheese crowd, and even Donald Trump wants to get in on it. He plans to build a speedway near New York City, where there's a word for people who tailgate at high speeds: cabbies...
Chmela was the top singles player for the Tigers, the Southeastern Conference champions...
CONFLICT 15-year effort by Kurdish separatists to establish autonomy in southeastern Turkey...
...panel was sponsored by the Kokkalis Program of Southeastern and East-Central Europe, established in September 1997 with the aim of improving relations across Southeastern and East-Central Europe and between the region and the rest of the world...