Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possible reprisals against his troops in the sector. Clinton and Blair were reluctant because of the potential casualties. Chirac pointed out another problem: they could not launch such an operation without informing the Russians, for diplomatic reasons, or the Italians, whose peacekeeping troops were present in the French-controlled zone immediately around Pale. "But if we tell the Russians and the Italians," Chirac remarked, "we might as well hold a press conference!" The leaders agreed to continue the planning and intelligence gathering but postponed a final decision...
Children have their own deck--with slides and play areas. (Parents are given pagers to allow them contact with the kid zone.) Teenagers meet for coffee and schmoozing at a jukebox joint called Common Grounds. (And that's teens only, please; two middle-age interlopers were gently escorted out.) As for the grownups, they can dine in a no-kids restaurant--Palo, with decent Northern Italian cuisine--or visit an adults-only comedy club, Off Beat, where the humor is saucy but not blue. No Mickey Viagra gags; after all, this is a Disney ship...
...Meanwhile, the question "How can it be dirty if you study it as an academic subject?" is examined in Los Angeles as registration begins for the four-day World Conference on Pornography. The presentation Mayor Giuliani is most likely to attend: "An Architectural Design for an 'Erotic Zone' in a Major Metropolitan City...
...stop, a 150th anniversary celebration of the birth of the women's movement at Seneca Falls, N.Y., it again became apparent that Hillary Clinton will never be an old-fashioned First Lady. To the 14,000 people who came out to see her--filling a football field from end zone to end zone--she gave a speech that she had been up writing most of the night. It touched on many of the causes she has long advocated: equal pay for women, affordable child care, gun control, guaranteed pensions and--yes--universal health care. Noting that the leaders of Seneca...
...soon. El Nino is at least partly responsible for the scorching drought and record temperatures that have been blamed for 50 deaths across the U.S., 30 of them in Texas, which has hit triple digits every day for two weeks. With El Nino's help, a high-pressure zone has been anchored over the South for several months, robbing places like Texas and Florida of the thunderstorms and cooling rains that usually bring relief at this time of year...