Word: fight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second set, however, Mueller quickly fell behind, 3-1, and seemed unable to muster the drive to fight back. His play became dispirited and mechanical, and he actually took to lying down between points, earning quizzical glances from Zimmerman...
...could total . as much as $2 billion by the end of 1990. Officials also warn that if the Colombian Supreme Court, as expected, strikes down President Barco's power to extradite criminals to the U.S., he may be forced to stage a coup to continue his fight...
CLANCY'S plot is straight out of today's headlines--maybe even a day ahead--as it weaves a story around a the federal government's efforts to fight the drug...
...passions behind the fight are easy to understand for anyone who has seen the almost unimaginable sweep of the Amazon basin. The river and forest system covers 2.7 million sq. mi. (almost 90% of the area of the contiguous U.S.) and stretches into eight countries besides Brazil, including Venezuela to the north, Peru to the west and Bolivia to the south. An adventurous monkey could climb into the jungle canopy in the foothills of the Andes and swing through 2,000 miles of continuous 200-ft.-high forest before reaching the Atlantic coast. The river itself, fed by more than...
...western state of Rondonia. The program, backed by subsidies and built around a highway through the state called BR-364, was designed to relieve population pressures in southern Brazil. But Polonoroeste has made Rondonia the area where rain-forest destruction is most rapid, and the focal point of the fight to save the Amazon...