Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...point during high school I was abruptly informed (by a white friend) that "Oriental" was now a racist term and that I would heretofore be known as "Asian." College brought the all-important addition of "American," so that I am now "Asian-American," or, if one really wants to split hairs, "Asian American" (the hyphen, to some, indicates an undesirable hierarchy or dualism...
Nasrallah: They wanted to make a split between the people and the resistance. But the resistance is now more popular than ever. They wanted to terrorize civilians so they would demonstrate on the streets to demand the disarming of Hizballah. They wanted a clash between the resistance and the government in Lebanon--just as Israel persuaded Arafat to fight Hamas. None of these goals were achieved...
Hyman acknowledged that the executive board's voting procedure was irregular because the Campus Life co-chairs, who usually split one vote, had two votes in this decision...
...tell-all, but children's books are allowed. All in all, the second divorce among the Queen's children looks to be as amicable as the first. Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips (remember him?) live near each other and, though both remarried, share parenting. Now for that third split...
...when doing cover songs for frat parties they used their earnings wisely," says Dick Hodgin, the band's first manager. (Rusty Harmon took over when Hodgin decided he didn't have the time to focus on the band.) "They put money away instead of doing what most bands do--split it and spend it." Today the band has four corporations, including Fishco, Inc., which handles record royalties and related matters, and Breaking Records, the group's new label, which will focus on finding and developing grass-roots bands...