Word: checkpoints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those with political dreams Harvard is a critical checkpoint, In this century, the College has been alma mater to several senators, numerous congressional representatives and two U.S. presidents...
Dowler said officials are currently discussingtighter security for Widener and Pusey Libraries.Options under consideration include an electric IDcard scanner and a security checkpoint at thelibrary entrance...
...Payne acknowledges that the retailer is the primary checkpoint for preventing children under 18 from purchasing cigarettes...
...Military checkpoints dot Route 6 from Baghdad to the southern city of Basra, evidence that tension persists between the Iraqi army and the rebellious Shi'ite population. At one checkpoint, passersby can see men being searched by soldiers. On a tour of Basra conducted by the local military governor, a general who reportedly commanded the troops that crushed the Shi'ite uprising after the war, foreigners are escorted by a truckload of armed soldiers with a roof-mounted machine gun and grenade launchers -- though the general insists all is peaceful in the city...
...Bush set off in July 1989 for Eastern Europe, then in the midst of liberating itself from Moscow, he told his aides and speechwriters to avoid any appearance that he was "poking a stick in Gorbachev's eye." Later that year, when the East German Communist regime threw open Checkpoint Charlie at Moscow's behest, Bush vowed he would not "dance on the Berlin Wall." And during the climax of the gulf war, he deliberately avoided humiliating Gorbachev over the failure of his last-minute interventions...