Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wright and the other 218 congressmen who voted against military aid really willing to trust the Sandinistas' good will? What can they do if the Sandinistas, politically secure at home, renege on their promises to take steps towards democratization and begin to undermine the fragile and fledgling republics that surround them...
...clairvoyant powers, foresees blood in Haiti's immediate future. He is not alone. A young woman who identifies herself only as Monique has piled her four small children onto a crowded bus that is heading for the boondocks. Like many others who live in the slums that surround Port-au-Prince, Monique does not want to be anywhere near the capital city during the election scheduled this Sunday. "I'm disappearing," she whispers, her eyes darting to see if she has been overheard. South of the capital in the tiny port town of Miragoane, a doctor gives fuller voice...
Steven Minskoff, 28, a Manhattan real estate executive and a card-carrying member of the TV generation, thought he had seen and heard it all, from Moonlighting on a 35-in. screen to MTV in surround-sound stereo. Then he saw a store demonstration of Panasonic's new "picture in picture" VCR system, which lets viewers watch two or more programs on the same TV screen. As a salesman tapped on a remote control, new stations began appearing, one at a time, until the screen was filled with nine equal-size panels, each showing a different channel. "My mouth dropped...
...They have a dominant big man inside in Calavita, and they have a lot of guys to surround him who can shoot the ball," Roby said. "They give you an inside-outside game...
...kind is the "shifting block" puzzle. One puzzle in the exhibition required the user to move a "car" through "traffic" or even use four "walls" to surround a "dinosaur...