Word: splinters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...analysis of the 1973 Arab oil crisis, which he said would splinter off to affect demand for many other goods became a permanent part of the way countries and businesses all over the world accurately predicted and planned production, according to the Nobel committee...
...that century, two end-time views had become dominant among Protestant groups. "Pre-millennialism" imagined Christ appearing on earth during the reign of the Antichrist. "Post-millennialism" taught that Christ would return only after Christians had first established their own thousand-year reign of righteousness. And a more recent splinter of post-millennialism is "Reconstructionism," founded by Rousas John Rushdoony. It holds that before Christ will return to earth, society must collapse and then be rebuilt along more godly lines...
ROSS PEROT Hulk Hogan is running for President in 2000. That's going to really splinter the crazy vote...
...blow of his 170-lb. car bomb. The bomber and one soldier died.) "[Arafat] was really panicking about it," said an official who saw him afterward. "Had it been the 40 schoolchildren, it would have been the end of the peace process as we know it." A Hamas splinter group, Islamic Jihad, made another go at that goal late last week, sending two bombers into a crowded market in Jewish West Jerusalem. The attack went awry when they lost control of their car and it exploded, killing the two and injuring at least 21 bystanders...
...There can be many different splinter groups within the full community," Augustine said...