Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ancestral home most had never seen or even heard of until Redford contacted them. They are, says Redford, "people who have never truly been home before." The Aug. 30 gathering comes exactly two centuries after 80 slaves arrived from Africa aboard the brig Camden to help carve from the swamp a plantation where as many as 328 slaves would eventually labor...
...goal of the Saudis' tactic was to drive high-cost non-OPEC oil producers out of business and thus limit energy exploration. To some extent, the swamp 'em and stomp 'em strategy has worked. In the U.S., for example, the number of active drilling rigs has fallen from 1,911 a year ago to fewer than 800 today...
...that it could collapse under its own weight, leaving this critical need unmet. Army officials conceded to a House subcommittee early this year that the final price tag could be as high as $22 billion. Warns Oregon Republican Congressman Denny Smith: "The Army is going into a $20 billion swamp. The chances are good that it can spend billions and lose another decade, and still not have an effective air-defense weapon...
Trinidad is, in fact, a dirt-and-brickpaved town where the gravest safety threat is the street life, with its unnerving mix of horses, chickens and pickup trucks. Though dozens of drug-processing labs are scattered throughout the region's 77,220 sq. mi. of swamp and jungle, Trinidad is not a major cocaine center. Some locals are bitter that more modern cities farther south are siphoning off the side benefits of the cocaine trade. "Five years ago half the hotels and restaurants were filled year round with narco traffickers," sighs Jorge Lorgio Zambrana, 48, a hotel owner...
...share data with another, American firms are promoting their own proprietary communications systems, creating what has become a veritable skyscraper of Babel. The potential bugs involved in tying together incompatible systems, says Matthew Balkovic, director of AT&T Information System's Computer Networking Laboratory, are "enough to populate a swamp...