Word: southern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ELEGY FOR THE SOUTHERN DRAWL By Rodney Jones Houghton Mifflin...
...theater to support an escalated air war, NATO commander Wesley Clark acknowledged that the air campaign has had little effect on Serb operations in Kosovo. And its political cost may grow as the alliance acknowledged Wednesday that one of its precision-guided bombs had missed its target in southern Serbia and landed in a residential area, where at least 17 civilians were killed. Both sides now appear to be ready for a peace deal, as long as each can spin it as a victory...
CONFLICT Northern Muslims pitted against southern Christians and animists...
After retiring as a manager from Digital Equipment Corp. in 1994, Al Pink planned to start just such a business with his wife. In 1996 the couple, both avid golfers, opened Southern Appeal (www. southernappeal.com) an online store that sells such golf-related trinkets as golf-club stands and golf-bag-shaped Christmas stockings. Before they could open for business, they had to obtain a merchant account number for credit-card transactions from a local bank in Roswell, Ga., and buy specialized software to keep track of inventory on someone else's shelves. It was a lot of extra trouble...
...Southern plantation owners and gentleman farmers, enslaved Africans were simply investments. Ledgers and diaries from their estate archives documented who had to be fed, housed and rationed clothing, blankets and utensils: "Essie" received a pot, ladle and blankets for her child, and "Mose" was hired out to a neighboring farm...