Word: synonymity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world where countries seem to be breaking down and falling apart, there is one that may actually be coming back together. It is Cyprus, whose very name has for more than 30 years been a synonym for tribal hatred, religious strife and diplomatic failure. Intensive negotiations at the United Nations this fall may finally yield a breakthrough...
...been killed by Palestinians in that time. But a spate of armed assaults by Arabs last year prompted the army to expand the role of undercover units, which were first deployed against the intifadeh in 1988. Today the sayarot -- their predecessors made the raid on Entebbe in 1976 a synonym for military derring-do -- are conducting 200 or more operations every day in the occupied territories, though many of those sorties have limited objectives, such as gathering intelligence or spotting rock throwers...
During 15 years of brutal civil war among religious and political clans, fought mainly by Christian and Muslim militiamen, Beirut became a synonym for savagery. Last week for the first time authorities put out an official estimate of the rivers of blood spilled through Lebanon and its 3.4 million population. The casualty toll, largely civilian: 144,240 people slain, 197,506 wounded and 17,415 missing. Most of the missing persons were abducted by rival militias, and are now presumed dead...
...goes according to plan, a Feb. 1 cease-fire will end the 12-year civil war that has claimed 75,000 lives and made El Salvador a synonym for bloodshed and human-rights abuses. Once disarmed, the rebels plan to form a political party, while the government will slash its armed forces from 56,000 to about...
...maybe not just any recession. General Motors, that synonym for American enterprise, sounds a massive retreat with unprecedented plant closings and layoffs. Is this a metaphor for the American economy, for American destiny? We are seized with a sudden fear: maybe the current recession is not just a cyclical downturn, which would make it tolerable, but the harbinger of long- term decline. Maybe the bill for the cold war (or the Decade of Greed or the wages of sin -- pick your poison) has come due, and we are now beginning our inexorable descent. Maybe this is not America...