Word: stalling
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...resisting local government efforts to buy up their properties and flood them as part of the restoration. Surprisingly, the Miccosukees have sued in favor of the landowners: because most of the families have lived there legally for decades, the tribe fears that a battle to evict them will just stall the restoration. Last week local officials backed off, and environmentalists are fuming. "The tribe's stance boggles us," says a leading Miami activist. "You look at their big new casino out there, and you wonder if they're shills for developers...
...insists it?ll happen as soon as the Serbs hit the road. But even with international peacekeepers poised to enter the province and make it safe for returning refugees, the struggle for Kosovo may be far from over. "Experience tells us to expect Milosevic to do his utmost to stall, perhaps not withdrawing all of his forces and seeking loopholes in agreements to try and maintain whatever control he can over Kosovo," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "He?ll try to create a situation where it?s hard for NATO to resume bombing and that President Clinton will simply...
...morning bearing the weight of a break-up with his girlfriend and wearing a determined stare. Stacey Singleton, a junior at Heritage, calls it a "hate look," scary enough that when she spotted Solomon and his rifle as he entered the school, she tried to melt into a phone stall she was using. "I just gripped the phone and knew that something really, really bad was going to start," she says...
...stall option added a wrinkle for Helgen and Kallin to deal with...
...Primary choice, only 5 percent will go to the stall for urination," Helgen says. "The percentage is more like 65 or 70 when there is a secondary choice or more...