Word: southern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think of the southern tradition of football, with the fraternity brothers dressed for a cocktail party, flanked by their date, cheering on their school in a mass of enthusiasm, surrounded by 40,000 or more of their comrades...
...television in the final days of the campaign. Millner is also keeping up a tireless schedule of personal appearances--he has traveled more than 46,000 miles across the state since January. And his party affiliation may help: the Republican vote has been growing rapidly in Georgia, and no Southern Democrat has won an open Senate seat since 1988. Still, if the polls are to be believed, Cleland could end the Democrats' losing streak. His much heralded biography would then have a new chapter, "The Senate Years...
First the Pentagon conceded last June that perhaps 350 soldiers from the Army's 37th Engineer Battalion could have been exposed to traces of chemical weapons when they blew up ammunition at the Kamisiyah weapons depot in southern Iraq on March 4, 1991. It was one day after Iraq's surrender, ending the Gulf War, and the unit was destroying Bunker 73, which contained rockets brimming with the virulent gas sarin. Three weeks ago, a presidential commission tripled--to 1,100--its estimate of the number of G.I.s exposed to the poison during that incident. Then last Wednesday the Pentagon...
...earlier memoir, Leaving Home, Buchwald described a somewhat bleak childhood spent in foster homes. I'll Always Have Paris (Putnam; 236 pages; $24.95) takes up the story after Buchwald completed a hitch in the Marines and three years at the University of Southern California. In June 1948 Buchwald sailed for France, where he took certain liberties with the G.I. Bill. He told the Veterans Administration he would be studying French, but he never showed up for class. Indeed, he never learned the language, getting by on body English and the Franglais that eventually made his Paris dispatches (including, among other...
...bargain hunters should hurry - the fares are only good till Thursday. Despite 15 weeks of inactivity, ValuJet still has the cash reserves to kick operations off with a discount rates, but faces competition upon its return to the skies. Trying to counter price competition on its routes in the southern U.S., Atlanta-based Delta Airlines has decided to strike back by matching ValuJet's low fares on routes to Florida. Josh Dubow