Word: branches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, when a country tries to regain peace, the unexploded bomblets, or "duds," retard the process. They stay and do not know tank from child, peace from violence. These bitter presents of war, perhaps hiding under a tree branch, brightly colored and coded, are dangerously inviting...
Smaller blocking groups will force undergraduates to reconsider the purpose of the blocking group and reinvigorate House communities. Students will branch out within their Houses and make the effort to establish new circles of acquaintances. Some may be frustrated at having to do some of the work of their first year all over again, but in the end, we are confident that all will find it rewarding, and more importantly, that we will collectively be better...
...credit, the University has tried to patch up relations with the city, donating land last year for an Allston branch library. More recently, the University has agreed to increase its payment in lieu of taxes to the city by $12 million. But the fact remains that by covering up its purchases, even in order to protect itself from inflated real estate prices, Harvard acquired its land in an underhanded manner, a move that will likely taint town-gown relations for years to come...
...Hostage Rescue Team had fired at least two "hot" military tear-gas grenades during the 1993 Waco siege. The week before, the revelation had humiliated Reno and rekindled conspiracy theories--in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary--that the government had set the fires that destroyed the Branch Davidian compound and killed some 80 men, women and children. And why hadn't she been told that airplane surveillance tapes, which captured the moment when the pyrotechnic rounds were deployed, had been found in a box in the HRT office in Quantico, Va.? Dispatching the marshals would...
...Charred evidence from the Branch Davidian compound...