Word: accession
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years just to keep up with population growth. "We are cornered," admits Munther Haddadin, a Jordanian development official. With time running out, Jordan hopes to draw additional reserves from the Yarmuk river. Israel, however, will fight any plans for use of the river that do not give guarantees of access to the Yarmuk waters that the country currently uses...
...class theatergoers have been replaced by a rougher and more assertive audience whose tastes encourage Hindi filmmakers to resort to such exploitation. Another factor, observers believe, has its roots in the fabric of a society in which most marriages are still arranged and unmarried men even today have little access to women, let alone romance or sex. Ranjeet, 44, the popular Hindi movie villain who has enacted more than 350 rape scenes during a 19-year career, explains the phenomenon in terms of sexual deprivation. Says he: "Because people live in a repressive society, they are sex starved. Filmmakers cash...
...collapse of Denver's Silverado Banking has exposed much more than just the questionable business relationships of President Bush's son Neil. The fall of Colorado's No. 3 savings and loan has put the spotlight on a group of go-go bankers and developers who, with access to Silverado's money, built political influence in Colorado and even Washington...
...past two years, Steele has argued in a provocative series of essays that a generation after the Watts riot and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it is time for blacks to drop the crutch of racial victimization and rely on their own efforts to gain access to the American mainstream. The opportunities are there, he says. Blacks have only to stop hiding behind racism and take advantage of them. Last May he focused a PBS television special about Bensonhurst on that recurring theme. And next month a collection of his essays will be published...
...formality of the man's work is rich with unique sensitivity and sight. But it is his willingness to acknowledge a particular kind of subject matter that sets him apart from others in the eyes of the public. As a gay man in New York, he had access to a community that was invisible--and disturbing--to many Americans...