Word: splinters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There were encouraging signs that a genuine two-party system is beginning to emerge. Six splinter parties did very poorly; so did the leftist P.R.D., led by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, which won only 17%. His party seems likely to fracture and fade further. Meanwhile, the center-right, business-oriented National Action Party (P.A.N.) surged from 16% of the electorate in 1988 to almost 27%. % The party looks like a challenger in the making. "For the P.A.N.," says Denise Dresser, a political scientist at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, "the race did not end on Aug. 21. It began...
Snodgrass and Nguyen say they think ethnicgroups on campus tend "to splinter people" anddiscourage interracial dating, though Gubbinscautions that opinions within groups vary...
...sleds and horses soon broke down. On Jan. 18, 1912, Scott and four companions finally dragged themselves to the bottom of the world, where they found a month-old note from Amundsen. On the way back the runners-up had to fight fatigue, blizzards and temperatures low enough to splinter their teeth. Nobody finished. Only five miles from safety, Scott was among the last...
...paradox: a devoted physician, but not for Arabs. "He would say, 'He's an enemy of my people. I didn't come here to treat enemies,' " recalls Barbara Ginsberg, an American official of Kach who knew Goldstein. Says Michael Guzofsky, the associate director of Kahane Chai, a splinter of the Kach Party: "In his mind, there was no such thing as an innocent Arab." Among the Palestinians of Hebron, he developed a reputation as a fierce bully who harassed Muslim worshippers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a spot sacred in both Judaism and Islam where adherents...
There is in fact no guarantee that Bhutto, who was Prime Minister from 1988 to 1990 before being ousted by presidential fiat, can form a government. As soon as the election results were in, she and Nawaz Sharif began negotiations to win the support of regional splinter parties as well as independents, who garnered the balance of Assembly seats. Both claimed they had the backing to form a government when the Assembly convenes for a secret parliamentary leadership ballot Oct. 19. But Bhutto was widely seen as having the edge...