Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the Crimson trailing 11-7 in the seventh inning to the Conference USA-champion Green Wave, it looked like the two-time Ivy League-champion and top team in New England was about to bow out from the Tournament most ungracefully...
...technologies like APS and digital that really work drive consumers to the stores looking to buy. For camera retailers, this new wave of products is a good development. Says David Ritz, president of Ritz Camera Centers Inc.: "We're happy as long as the consumer is happy...
Gore and his allies, backed by considerable polling, say taxpayers are more than willing to pay a small amount each month to guarantee their children a place in the digital economy. "If they want this fight, bring it on," says a Gore aide with a taunting schoolyard wave. "Politicians who are against this are going to seem like they are against the library or the telephone...
Your special report on the most influential people of the 20th century summed up what lies ahead [TIME 100, April 13]. You noted that tribalism and ethnic conflict pose a great threat to peace. However, I differ with your stance. Tribalism (I would prefer the word patriotism) is the wave of the future. The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in today's new world order. And there are other peaceful examples, such as Czechoslovakia, which separated quietly. In Africa colonial powers did not draw borders to accommodate different tribes, and perhaps that is the reason for the ever reappearing...
While the U.S. last week loudly protested a wave of atrocities sweeping the war-torn African nation of Sierra Leone, questions arose about whether enough had been done to support the United Nations arms embargo that was imposed last October and that the U.S. backed. Did the State Department ignore a clandestine delivery by a group of British mercenaries of nearly 40 tons of high-powered weapons to the diamond-rich nation? Both British Foreign Secretary ROBIN COOK and State Department spokesman JAMES RUBIN deny knowledge of the shipment. But a well-informed U.S. official tells TIME that word...