Word: stampings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Will Win: Everyone but Hicks has a shot. The Director's Guild Award bodes well for The English Patient: still, don't count out Coen, who's better-known in Hollywood and works with a more personal stamp...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: It was the stamp of vindication that private property owners had long awaited in their battle over a key environmental law. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that people who claim to have suffered economic harm may use the Endangered Species Act to file lawsuits accusing the federal government of doing too much to protect some species. The ruling is sure to affect the hundreds of ongoing environmental disputes nationwide. It came as a defeat for the Clinton administration, which until now had been successful in lower court decisions seeking a "one-way" interpretation...
...past six weeks of demonstrations as an excuse to tighten his personal grip on power. With protests over the collapse of fraudulent investment schemes convulsing Albania, Berisha dismissed the government and shook up the armed forces. Last week he declared a state of emergency and then had his rubber-stamp Parliament re-elect him President. Protesters reacted by switching their targets from the Ponzi schemes to the one-man rule of Berisha. Simmering economic differences between the poorer north and the south boiled over, and several southern towns exploded into insurrection--or anarchy...
...revolt in Vlora began six weeks ago, in defiance of swarms of riot police and agents of SHIK, the state security service, who were trying to stamp out demonstrations. Vlora, a town of 70,000, had recently been prosperous, at least in Albanian terms, largely because some of its residents are noted for their skill at smuggling. Since they had money to lose, they lost more than most Albanians in the collapsing pyramid funds. They have had it with Berisha. "He is a thief who stole our money," says Idris Nimet, a carpenter turned rebel. "Berisha will never...
Receiving a hand stamp from Lamelle Rawlins '99 at the door--reminiscent of trips to Disney World when I was 10, seemed a bit childish and informal--but the half-filled hearts some wore found complements as the evening progressed...