Word: swathe
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...European tour to promote his faltering "peace process," General Javier Arias went on TV back home to reclaim the territory Pastrana had ceded to the country's biggest leftist rebel force, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Pastrana's critics say giving the insurgents the vast swath of land in southern Colombia has failed to yield any concessions from the guerrillas. Yet he is considering ceding a smaller zone in the north to the country's second-largest rebel force, the National Liberation Army...
...insignificant village in a sparsely populated area of northeastern Burma. It owed its remarkable transformation?and its notoriety?to a Shan Chinese druglord called Lin Mingxian. Lin had been a field commander in the Communist Party of Burma, or CPB, a formidable insurgent group that once occupied a large swath of northeastern Shan state. When the CPB collapsed in 1989, Lin led a breakaway faction of over 3,500 soldiers, taking control of an opium-rich wilderness bordering China, Laos and Thailand...
...story with geopolitical ramifications. That, at least, is the formula followed with considerable, nail-biting skill in Robert Wilson's A Small Death in Lisbon (Harcourt; 440 pages; $25). The author constructs a murder mystery that cannot be solved without following a winding trail through a considerable and bloody swath of 20th century history...
...shirt. What is she doing in this movie, with each costume putting progressively more of her upper torso on display (a trend which culminates in one memorable bikini which allows you to see parts of all four sides of her breasts, while covering the important, R-rated swath in the middle)? I mean, wearing these outfits is a shade less deameaning than, say, doing carnival midget porn, but then carnival midget porn is probably going to be seen by a smaller audience than this film is. If she wants to typecast herself as eye candy, she'd better be careful...
Since only 2% of Americans live without a television, Brock initially despaired of finding even 20 TV-free families. Yet small ads in three family-oriented publications eventually elicited 280 responses last March to her 22-page questionnaire. The respondents were diverse, cutting across a swath of incomes, education levels, ethnic and racial backgrounds. But they were not entirely typical American families: nearly half had moms at home, and nearly 40% of the children were younger than three...