Word: dated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hope this reaches you at whatever resort exists in heaven (or the other place) for former Presidents of the U.S. Not knowing how closely you watch events in the world you left behind, I want to bring you up to date on the consequences of an ideal you so energetically championed: national self- determination. Today it is militantly invoked in many places, from the former Yugoslavia to the former Soviet republics, including North Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh. (You don't know where those new states are? Well, very few people do.) Rival claims to the same land have...
...councillor's most recent legal troubles stem from an October 5 incident. On that date, Walsh removed two dildos and a metal box from "Identidem," an exhibit in Gallery 57, a public art space in the City Hall Annex. Hans Evers, the Cambridge artist whose work was featured, field a criminal complaint on October...
...ventures have produced more noble failures than the quest to power civilization with renewable energy from geophysical forces -- the winds, the tides and, most of all, the sun's rays. "To date the history of solar has been the story of Tantalus: year after year the prize has remained, maddeningly, just beyond reach," noted a FORTUNE magazine story. It ended on a hopeful note: "The period of solar frustration is drawing to a close." Date of the story: September 1979. In fact, the period of solar frustration was just beginning...
...breast cancer, science cannot be guaranteed silence. Months before the report's scheduled publication this week, pro-life groups laid plans to trumpet the seven-year study's findings. In the opposition camp, pro-choice groups marshaled the statistics they needed to defuse the new findings. As the release date neared, editors at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer learned of the report, broke an embargo and rushed the results into print a week ahead of time...
Bosnian government forces scored one of their most important military victories to date against the Bosnian Serbs with a surprise attack that pushed the Serbs from strategic positions surrounding Bihac in northwestern Bosnia. On Saturday government forces surrounded the village of Bosanska Krupa, trapping hundreds of Serb soldiers. The Bosnians captured 100 sq. mi. of territory as well as several tanks and mortars, forcing some 10,000 Bosnian Serbs to flee...