Word: open
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Noncitizens could be deported without recourse, and they frequently were when economic demand slackened or political crisis threatened. Foreigners could not own homes or land. Those who worked for the government were eligible for subsidized housing. Those employed in the private sector were forced to find lodgings on the open market, which often meant living in slums, since rents were exorbitant. In time, a housing apartheid grew, with some of the Palestinian neighborhoods dubbed "Gaza" and "the West Bank." Even the Kuwaiti-born children of foreigners could be expelled from the only country they had ever known if they were...
...only did Milosevic become the first holdover from the communist past to retain the presidency of a Yugoslav republic in an open election; his habit of waving the bloodied shirt of ethnic grievances set Serbia on a course of imminent collision with other Yugoslavs, notably Croats and Slovenes. Said Aleksandar Baljak, a Serbian journalist: "Democracy came and knocked at the door, but we weren't at home...
Estimating how much of this windfall the Saudis have contributed to the anti-Saddam effort is tricky too. One problem, which also crops up with other allies, is how to figure contributions in kind. Riyadh has given the U.S. an open-ended commitment to supply all the fuel, water and electric needs of the U.S. forces operating there, but how should oil supplied to American troops be valued -- at the price it might fetch if sold on the world market or at Saudi production costs, which may be as low as 50 cents per bbl. of crude? By some estimates...
...memory, for example, of the way she slowly read the passage from Swift in which Gulliver was tied down by the Lilliputians. Each word became part of a picture in the mind. I don't know how long it took Swift to write this particular description, but it helped open young minds to the kind of imagery that belongs to creative expression. We had the same sense of literary splendor when our teacher read -- so carefully and lovingly -- from Thomas Hardy or the Brontes, or when she asked one of us to read Flaubert's word portrait of Emma Bovary...
...plans for four more discount malls: near Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Ontario, Calif. Not to be outdone, Benderson Development Co., Western's main rival in megamall retailing, is building what it touts as "the largest manufacturers' mall in the universe" near Niagara Falls. The 200-store extravaganza, scheduled to open in 1992, features a Fashion Avenue of stores of the most exclusive designers and "Epcot-like life-size video games...