Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most Republican states in a region that has been transformed from a Democratic to a G.O.P. stronghold. That has the G.O.P. in Washington giddy, pouring resources into a bid to remove Hollings, while his party is doing the same to keep alive their last powerful outpost in the old Confederacy...
...Washington outpost opened this past July asa meeting place for professors and studentsworking in the area and as a base for severalexecutive education programs and select researchprojects...
...working for Billboard, and failing in his first bid for folkie stardom (his debut album stiffed, and his second was put on the shelf). In 1971 he fled Tennessee and a bad first marriage and wound up at the end of the road in Key West, then a lazy outpost for shrimpers, smugglers, gays and cosmic cowboys like singer Jerry Jeff Walker and novelist Tom McGuane, who ended up married to Buffett's sister Laurie...
...fall, Harvard plans to open an outpost in Hong Kong that will serve as a central resource for University activity in the area--activity that has skyrocketed in recent years as more Faculty research has been considered in the area...
...beige Compaq Proliant 2500 computer and an off-white Dell Poweredge, hooked into a refrigerator-size rack of network routers and, from there, via a thumb-thick black cable, to the infinite abundance of the Internet. Edward Zeng, the 35-year-old Chinese entrepreneur who commands this tiny outpost in the battle for information freedom, can't resist a grin as he looks around the modest but astonishing room buried within a warren of offices in the bunker-like hallways under Beijing's Capital Stadium. As state-sponsored basketball and badminton teams practice overhead, Zeng pats one of his purring...