Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today Gore finds himself with an almost insurmountable lead at a time when being front runner is more important than ever. With California moving its primary to early March, New York expected to do the same, and a host of Southern and Western states scheduling theirs in the weeks that follow, both parties are likely to have chosen their nominees by mid-March. That means that by the Iowa caucuses in February, any credible candidate will probably need to be running field operations in 25 states and television ads in eight...
...elite Special Forces, and his popularity in the Bedouin-based force is a strong point. He may have an advantage in dealing with the country's Palestinians: his wife hails from the West Bank. But Abdullah has no political or government experience. And strict Muslims are unhappy with his Western ways--he speaks better English than Arabic...
...trouble for his sanction-strapped country, he can't just hand Kosovo over. But he may welcome the chance to be forcibly shorn of it and blame NATO. If the Albanians unilaterally block a deal, the U.S. warns there will be no air strikes on the Serbs and no Western intervention on the ground...
...some time, scientists have known that a small African monkey called the sooty mangabey is the natural reservoir of a virus very similar to HIV-2, which causes a milder form of AIDS found largely in western Africa. But the source of HIV-1, the dominant cause of the AIDS pandemic, has remained elusive to virus hunters like Alabama's Dr. Beatrice Hahn. Long on the trail of links between HIV and kindred simian viruses, she jumped at the chance to examine old tissue samples (stored, as it turns out, in a freezer at the National Cancer Institute) from...
...been doing it as long as she has," says Tyrone Simmons, who runs a shuttle service called Operation Prison Gap and rewards Mrs. Rosado's loyalty by charging her only half the $40 fee. During the course of a week, thousands of New Yorkers visit relatives in upstate and western New York prisons. On Friday and Saturday nights, dozens of buses and vans stack up at Columbus Circle. Mrs. Rosado, who retired as a seamstress four years ago, prefers to go on a weekday and avoid the crowds...