Word: stage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dealing here with entirely sensible people. The whiff of superpower attention went to the head of Kosovo's Albanians as they savored their first steps onto the world stage, prolonging the negotiations and frittering away pressure that was supposed to be reserved for the Serbs. Milosevic bathed in ego gratification as the world's diplomats trooped to his door. Both sides seemed to think, Why not keep this game going...
...spend four years at sea, feeding and growing to full adult size (3 lbs. to 126 lbs.). Then they begin the long upstream journey D back to their hatching grounds, where they spawn and, a few weeks later, die. A small number of adults may survive this stage and, stubbornly, return to the ocean to repeat the cycle once more...
...OCCUPATION: singer/starlet impersonator BEST PUNCH: Quit as Manson's opening act over "production problems," but early in the tour stormed off stage after a hostile greeting from Manson fans and told an L.A. audience Manson was "evil...
After serving as a director for 10 years and volunteering for PBHA as an undergraduate, Dixon said she is sad to leave but ready to enter a new stage of her career...
Recently, researchers studying satellite images of the sun have paid special attention to great, S-shaped twists of plasma called sigmoids that they now believe are an early stage of CME formation. Find a sigmoid, and within a few days you'll probably see an explosion. Since it takes an additional four days for the solar tsunami to reach Earth, you can double today's early-warning time...