Word: put
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...National Rifle Association might put it, guns don't kill prairie dogs, people do. Scores of people with a peculiar craving to mow down the critters in large numbers showed up for the first Top Dog World Championship Prairie Dog Shoot competition, conducted July 14 and 15 in Nucla, Colo. (pop. 1,000). When the smoke had finally cleared, 2,956 prairie dogs (which farmers and ranchers consider a nuisance) had been executed...
...Britain's newly privatized water companies. The scope of the Japanese surge abroad has been breathtaking. In 1984 Japanese banks held a little more than 20% of international banking assets, meaning the sum of all outstanding loans. Today the share is almost 40%. "There is hardly a major deal put together anywhere in the world that does not include Japanese banks," says J. Brain Waterhouse, a British securities analyst in Hong Kong. "It used to be that 1 out of 4 banks involved in deals were Japanese. Now it seems to be that 1 out of 2 are Japanese...
Though the four World War II victors -- the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain and France -- must still formally sign off on unification this fall, the Zheleznovodsk agreement caps nine months of dizzying change in Europe and signals the beginning of a fresh era. As Gorbachev put it, "We are leaving one epoch in international relations and entering another." Added Kohl: "The future has begun...
During his years of internal exile in Gorky, the silence of his Soviet colleagues disappointed him. His powerful friends would have suffered no personal risk by publicly announcing their support for the man who so often put himself in danger for prisoners of conscience, but they remained silent anyway. Sakharov does not appear bitter at this desertion, but disappointed in the cowardice of his countrymen...
...watch him work and take some pictures as he makes his rounds to local farms (local meaning within fifty miles of his home.) Though cloudy, it is so bright I must squint to keep my eyes from smarting. He tells me last year he put 45,000 miles on his Astro-Van. We sit in the two front seats with the rest of the van filled with pills, salves, buckets and the other tools of his trade. We stop at eight or nine farms that...