Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Tom named some of his plants after Twin Peaks characters (Catherine, Laura Palmer, Audrey) and Johnny often plays music to his "little ones," Mel decided that he didn't want to become too attached to his plants. "It's like in the olden days, when parents wouldn't name their kids until they were three or four years old because of the high death rate," he says...
...Twin national anthems are emblematic of Mandela's Masakhane campaign (masakhane is an Nguni word meaning "Let us build each other") to achieve national reconciliation. The campaign, in part, is an effort by the A.N.C. to end the culture of protest among blacks that the party once encouraged. The results have been heartening. Before the election, 80% of the residents of Soweto, the teeming black township near Johannesburg, refused to pay their electricity bills. Today nearly 70% pay them. In the 1970s Ezekial Morailane, a school-bus driver, began withholding his rent to the Soweto Council for his matchbox house...
Kansas City seemed the place to be for Opening Day, if only because the twin virtues of Ripken and real grass harken back to a time before the hideous words work stoppage entered sports parlance. Unfortunately for the Royals, only 24,170 fans felt that way, some 16,000 fewer than usually attend Opening Day. It was drizzly, to be sure, but the weather wasn't as off-putting as the baseball climate. The game lost many fans during the bitter "work stoppage," and there were similarly disappointing crowds elsewhere last week...
...paranoia about the Federal Government even as they express their deepest patriotism. Bureaucrats, militia members believe, are responsible for gun-control laws, like the 1994 Brady law and assault-weapons ban. The militias especially blame the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for the movement's twin tragedies: the deaths of white supremacist Randy Weaver's wife and son in a 1992 Idaho confrontation and the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians' compound in Waco, Texas, that resulted in the deaths of 82 cult members, including leader David Koresh. Mark Koernke, a prominent militia member who produces...
...Jocelyn says she generally agrees with people who say she is the more aggressive and open twin. She also says that Jennifer mothers her: "She's very concerned about how I am, and she makes sure I do everything that's good...