Word: sprung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looking for something a little lighter than ice cream's caloric richness, try one of the Square's many frozen yogurt shops. In the last few years, three stores exclusively devoted to fro-yo have sprung up in the square, and many of the ice cream shops also offer "gourmet" frozen yogurt...
...crusade has been building since a group called Kids Against Pollution was started three years ago by a fifth-grade civics class at the Tenakill School in Closter, N.J., to urge a ban on polystyrene at the school. Since their victory, 800 chapters of the student group have sprung up in the U.S. and Europe. One of KAP's primary goals is to reform the biggest polystyrene user of all. In West Milford, N.J., Jennifer Brailey, 12, has persuaded her family and friends to boycott McDonald's stores, or at least refuse any food that is enclosed in polystyrene containers...
...reputation as a daring maverick secured, Yeltsin was invited to speak at hundreds of the political, cultural and labor clubs that had sprung up. His continued popularity turned into ballots at the March 1989 elections for the new Soviet parliament. In spite of the party's attempt to keep him out, he won his seat with 89% of the vote...
...diverse as those on black Americans in New York City, North African workers in Italy, Arab immigrants in France, Romanies (Gypsies) in Czechoslovakia, Hungarians in Romania. Very few Jews are left in Central Europe after Hitler's Holocaust, but the anti-Semitism that lay dormant under communist repression has sprung back to life. The best word to describe the whole sickening phenomenon may simply be bigotry...
...Yuli Khariton, scientific director of the Installation. I mentioned that I was writing an essay on war and peace, ecology and freedom of expression. Khariton asked what I intended to do with it. "I'll give it to samizdat," I answered, referring to the underground network that had sprung up for circulating dissident writing. "For God's sake, don't do that," he said. "It's too late to stop it now," I confessed...