Word: tinder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cause of disastrous fires. Even the e-mail to first-years stated that Christmas trees dry out very quickly and create a major fire hazard to all residents of a building. So, why does the College permit students to string electrical wires around windows and over dead tinder--leaving them there 24 hours a day for a whole month--at the same time that it does not permit Jewish students to responsibly light and watch over menorahs for one hour on each of the eight nights of Hannukah? Is the College so sure that menorahs are a worse fire hazard...
Indonesia's police today fired on student protesters, in what might be a fateful decision by President Suharto: "The students are children of the elite," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "When you start beating them up, torturing them or killing them, you may be striking the tinder that sparks strong reaction to Suharto among powerful families...
...UNESCO declared Huang Shan a Cultural and Natural Property, thereby ensuring that the area's physical beauty will be preserved in perpetuity. Pheasant and deer abound. There are hundreds of indigenous plants, including ginkgo, actinidia and tinder fungus, that are said to heal the body and arouse the senses. The famous hot springs are known for their healing qualities and beautiful clear jade-green color. An hour's meditation in one of these thermal pools is a great way to end a day of hiking...
...shot that pierced the leg of Bahri Krasniqi, an 11-year-old ethnic Albanian who lives in the tiny village of Vojnik, may have been enough to set fire again to the depressingly familiar tinder of ethnic hate, violent temperament and political oppression...
...Despite the government's success in raising the standard of living, its problem list is long: money-losing state enterprises, more than 100 million basically unemployed migrant workers, rampant corruption, growing gaps between rich and poor as well as between the booming coastal provinces and the neglected hinterland--all tinder for potential social unrest. Perhaps most important, an ideologically bankrupt Communist Party is relying on repression and nationalism to keep itself in power and the country united...