Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...behind the New Forestry Initiative, which it says would ban clear- cutting only in old-growth forests while reducing the practice 50% in all others. Conservationists complain that it would still allow wholesale razing as long as one tree an acre was left standing. They call the plan Big Stump...
Before the East German elections earlier this year, Brandt was a stump speaker and nostalgia figure at campaign rallies. His Social Democrats lost because the people of the G.D.R. have had their fill of anything that even sounds socialist. But they still owe much to the author of Ostpolitik. What Willy Brandt did two decades ago helped make it possible for them to elect a unity Chancellor this year...
Make no mistake: not every freshly anointed manager is the second coming of Casey Stengel. In fact, Stengel had only one winning season in the 13 years he piloted a team other than the Yankees. Steinbrenner's Bronx Bumblers still + boast the worst record in baseball, despite new manager Stump Merrill, who says bravely, "I just hope I can survive and stay here." Atlanta managed at least briefly to climb out of last place under Bobby Cox, who swapped the general manager's office for a seat in the dugout. But as Lasorda, in his 15th year as Dodger manager...
Kyaw Lin hangs out with the other kids at Komura, doing chores and waiting for the orders of Lieut. Brown, 38, a Karen who lost his right leg to a mine ten years ago. His stump is covered by an intricate blue swirl of tattoos. Unable to go out on patrol, he trains the children and the volunteers from nearby villages. Brown insists that the children are not forced to fight, and he says he tries to keep them back. But, he acknowledges reluctantly, sometimes they do go to war. He adds that the children are mostly good fighters...
...refused to meet any of those demands. Backed by opinion polls that show both the Front and himself ahead in the parliamentary and presidential elections, Iliescu has gone on the stump, drawing large crowds in provincial cities. "Iliescu, Iliescu," they chant when he raises his arms triumphantly and smiles. He offers little in the way of concrete proposals, talking vaguely of capitalism with a human face and of his commitment to pluralism...