Word: flags
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Ershad is gone, Ershad is gone! Burn his throne!" screamed a flag-waving crowd in Dhaka as firecrackers exploded across the capital. "Catch the thief! Don't let him go!" chanted other marchers. But Ershad wasn't going anywhere. He even personally swore in his successor: Shahabuddin Ahmed, chief justice of the Supreme Court, whom opposition leaders had nominated as caretaker President. Said Ershad: "I want peace to return to society...
...maverick who ranged wide of the Social Democratic establishment and party orthodoxy. A pacifist, keen on environmental issues and allergic to any invocation of nationalist sentiment, he was touted as the "posthistorical politician." In his campaign, Lafontaine even shunned using the black, red and gold colors of the flag...
LUTHER Campbell of 2 Live Crew was busted in Florida. A Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit was shut down in Ohio. Flag-burners were arrested in Texas. But while free expression is under attack across the nation, three laudable judicial and legislative decisions close to home indicate that the First Amendment is alive and well and living in Massachusetts...
...Says Bernard Brennan, chief executive of Montgomery Ward: "There are more negative dynamics working than at any other time I've seen in my entire marketing career." After a year in which retail sales barely kept up with a 4.8% inflation rate, merchants have watched even that shopping pace flag just before the onset of the most important selling season of the year, one that typically accounts for as much as 60% of annual retail profits. Overall, sales (excluding gasoline) fell 0.1% in October...
...airline, staying in business is a gesture of defiance. As Kuwait's flag carrier, it represents a continuing national presence abroad even as Saddam's army attempts to obliterate the country's identity. When Iraqi troops crossed the border, eight Kuwait Airways jets (four 747s, three 727s and a 767) and more than half the carrier's 5,500 employees were abroad, scattered from London to Bangkok. Managers set up temporary headquarters in Cairo, contacted enough employees to crew their remaining jets and pressed ahead with flights to Jidda, Dubai and Bahrain...