Word: westing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dutifully, and with the media blaring doomsday over their car radios, more than 2 million residents did, clogging the highways and creating their own disaster bulletins ? the traffic kind. Cars packed with families, pets and suitcases crept west at hours per mile, and when Floyd cruised on by, folks were inclined to feel that safe had been exactly the same as sorry. "There was no need to go," Georgia convenience-store owner Subhash Patel told the USA Today after his four-and-a-half-hour, 39-mile trip cost him two days of business. "We got scared unnecessarily...
Some 2 million people evacuated Florida's coastal areas in advance of Hurricane Floyd's predicted onslaught, but although the winds blew strong in West Palm Beach, the hurricane did not come ashore...
...full House vote in the coming weeks. Sponsors of the measure hope that it will prevent terminally ill patients and their doctors from ending the patient?s life. The House bill, and its Senate version, sponsored by Majority Whip Don Nickles (R-Okla.), have ruffled some feathers out West. "A lot of Oregonians perceive this as a real slap in the face," says TIME Washington correspondent Sally Donnelly. "This bill is aimed directly at a piece of state legislation that was accepted twice by voters...
...hurricane to become as powerful as an Andrew or a Floyd, it must encounter several very specific environmental factors, including water temperatures above 80 degrees and a calm upper atmosphere. An Atlantic storm begins its life when high cumulus clouds gather over warm waters, often off the west coast of Africa. These clouds become a circular mass of thunderstorms, shaped by the curvature of the earth's atmosphere. These strong thunderstorms develop into tropical storms as they suck warm surface water to the top of the storm. This warm water is released upward into the cooler air, creating dense clouds...
...reported Tuesday that Eisner had assured Saudi Arabia?s Prince Al Walid bin Talal, a major shareholder in EuroDisney, that the corporation would steer clear of the controversy. Last month, Burger King found itself in similar straits after it opened an outlet in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. The Home of the Whopper withdrew its franchise after activists threatened a boycott of its burgers throughout the Islamic world...