Word: account
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republic cites, for example, the method's famous inability to account for why any modern Americans would actually bother to vote, since logic would tell them their vote has no impact and doesn't benefit them...
...living is relatively easy - and the incidence of breast cancer is 13 percent higher than the statewide average. Comparing Newton's wealthy and less-well-off areas, the Massachusetts-based Silent Spring Institute found higher rates of breast cancer in Newton's tonier neighborhoods. The researchers, taking into account known risk factors for breast cancer - such as delayed childbearing and ethnicity - noted that richer people tend to have more of their clothes dry-cleaned and hire pesticide-wielding professionals to manicure their lawns...
...candidacy of President B. J. Habibie appeared to have suffered a deathblow Tuesday when the assembly voted to reject his speech giving account of his 16-month tenure. Habibie's prospects had dimmed Monday when powerful armed forces chief General Wiranto declined his offer of the vice presidency. Even if Habibie drops out, it?s hard to pick a winner. Opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri polled the most votes in June?s election ? and her legions of protesting supporters have vowed to launch a revolution if she is denied the presidency ? but she has declined to get involved in the behind...
...Diary, translated by Ann Goldstein, purports to be an on-the-spot account of the sad tryst of a girl and her stepfather--the "real" story behind Humbert's besotted ravings in a book titled Lolita. We are told that Dolores ("Lolita") Maze (not Haze) met Humbert Guibert (not Humbert) in the home of her mother Isabel (not Charlotte); that Humbert took a fancy to Lo; that he married the mother to get to the daughter; that on the mother's death, Hum and Lo took to the open road, fitfully pursued by the girl's true love, playwright Gerry...
...partner today in the good life, which is expensive but not lavish. The house at Jackson Hole is small, done in comfortable rustic sloppy. Chouinard seems a little ashamed of having so much, though he has less than he could have. He has no stocks, only a checking account. He admires the Native American potlatch ceremony, in which the host would give away everything he owned...