Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to run, run, run," Walsh said. "[But] the pitchers need to be more aggressive in the strike zone...
...Secretary of State Warren Christopher landed in Jerusalem. His objective was to put a stop to the killing immediately, and then lash together a new, written version of the 1993 ground rules governing the low-level war the Israeli army and Hizballah are waging in and around the "security zone" that Israel occupies in south Lebanon...
...global ban on such weapons, which kill or injure 500 people a week, including many children. A U.S. ban seems certain to be enacted, though opponents are still arguing over details. Possible exceptions to any blanket prohibition on American use of mines include their deployment in the Korean Demilitarized Zone or in the event of a Persian Gulf war. Pentagon officials, having already backed away from a 2010 deadline for ending most mine use as being too late, want the ban to take effect in 2001. But the White House wants to perpetuate a yearlong ban on U.S. antipersonnel land...
...exist. Funded by Iran and at least tolerated by Syria, Hezbollah is a major player in a much broader struggle against the existence of Israel and must be treated as such. The history of Israel's involvement in Lebanon is long and complicated. Israel does not occupy the security zone in Southern Lebanon out of territorial ambition. The zone is a temporary buffer against a realistic fear of rocket attacks on northern Israel. Ideally, a comprehensive peace between Israel, Lebanon, and Syria (which occupies Lebanon) will result in Israel's withdrawal from the security zone and peace along the border...
...reason to be nervous around monkeys. Six years ago, several Philippine macaques imported by the Texas Primate Center in Alice came down with the strain of Ebola virus that had struck monkeys in Reston, Virginia, a year earlier, in a case that inspired the best-selling book The Hot Zone and the movie Outbreak. No humans got sick in either incident, but 100 animals had to be sacrificed...