Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...squads gather at the center of the field for an instant after shaking hands and then split, separated from each other by victory and defeat...
...children were usually split off from their mothers (fathers never lived with the families). Brothers and sisters were separated to live with other same-sex companions. They ate fruits and vegetables, but rarely warm food. Chocolate was prohibited, and ice cream, which Koresh enjoyed regularly, was granted only occasionally to the children. The boys were awakened at 5:30 a.m. for "gym," a series of paramilitary marching and drills; in addition, fights between the boys were staged possibly in preparation for man-to-man combat in an apocalyptic war. If they did not participate vigorously enough, discipline followed. Girls were...
Caught in the middle are the nation's 140,000 dairy farmers who, having run up a milk surplus for at least a dozen years, are split on whether the extra milk production is a good thing and convinced that the consumer controversy...
Harvard was the only Ivy League team this year to split its season series with Yale...
...merge, creating Europe's largest international carrier. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Swissair, Austrian Airlines and the trinational Scandinavian Airlines System said they would go far beyond earlier plans to combine certain activities and would create a single company with a new (yet unchosen) name and logo. Ownership would be split 30-30-30 among KLM, SAS and Swissair, with Austrian holding the remaining 10%. Starting with about 270 planes and more than 30 million passengers a year, the new aerocombine, which could come into existence as early as next year, will pose a major challenge to British Airways, Air France...