Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard-liners, nostalgic for the bad old days of dictatorship, who figured they dared not let the pact go into effect. Now, in the wake of the popular upheaval that defeated the putsch, the treaty has become a dead letter, judged totally inadequate to slake the republics' suddenly sharpened thirst for independence. At barest minimum, what was still officially one country on Aug. 19 will be four. The center, as Soviets call the government in the Kremlin, is no longer even trying to keep the three Baltic republics in any kind of union. A rapidly growing list of foreign governments...
...horse outposts now exfoliate for miles into the blazing environs, their citizens housed in air-conditioned comfort and assuming plentiful water as a God-given right. Among the seven states served by the Colorado River, California has become the 800-lb. gorilla at all negotiations, its cities expanding, their thirst apparently unquenchable. The Old West here comes into direct conflict with the New: the leathery rancher in Wyoming with his herd to water vs. the condo-dwelling Sybarite in Laguna Beach with a Porsche to wash and two hot tubs to keep filled. The Metropolitan Water District, responsible for finding...
...even filmed his pig at work, "its snout moving rhythmically back and forth, ears flopping over its eyes, a single-minded earth-moving machine." A similar cameo on the history of pastis ("the milk of Provence") is written with an unpompous sense of discovery and an appropriate amount of thirst...
Contributing to the sudden slaking of worldwide thirst: a rush by wine dealers to stockpile champagne before Jan. 1 price increases, coinciding with a drop in demand triggered by the gulf crisis and recessions in the U.S. and Britain. But longer-term forces may also be bursting the champagne bubble. Explains an official of the General Union of Wine Growers of Champagne: "In some countries you can see a trend toward health consciousness. This current has been seen in the U.S., which views champagne as both an alcoholic drink and a relatively high-calorie drink." What? Champagne unhealthy? The French...
...outrage and thirst for vengeance that suffused the comments of senior Saudi and Kuwaiti officials last fall are gone. They are more cautious now, more level-headed, as they consider the realities of the Middle East after a victory over Iraq. Long major players in the region's intricate politics, these Saudis and Kuwaitis will be charged with picking up the pieces after the U.S. turns its attention to another crisis somewhere else in the world...