Word: act
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only way to get the administration to act is through public influence and influence on Harvard's image, so I think that having 20 congressmen say this is the right thing to do is a powerful statement," McKean said...
Sources with knowledge of the negotiations saycontract talks had stagnated until the fall oflast year because Harvard was restructuring itsoffice of labor relations-and also because theguard union could not act coherently...
Whose Line, hosted with an easy bluster by Drew Carey (whose sitcom this show follows on ABC), is based on the British TV parlor game that made its debut in 1988. Performers are given characters to play, songs to devise, scenes to act out--all, we are told, instantly ad lib. A skit with a Zorro theme required that each actor's speech begin with consecutive letters of the alphabet. Series regular Ryan Stiles got the letter X. No problem: "Xavier Cugat once said...
...pair off to perform slinky tangos with a brittle, self-conscious physicality that has the ragged edge of barely controlled violence. To watch Piazzolla Caldera evolve from dancer Francie Huber's first tentative steps in the studio to the electrifying New York City premiere last March is a delicious act of artistic voyeurism...
...whose last charitable act was letting someone merge into my lane, I shouldn't go criticizing other people's good works. But the adopt-a-highway program may be the lamest charity I've ever heard of. What goes through these people's minds? "Yeah, homelessness is a bummer, but, my God, have you seen what's become of that westbound stretch of I-80?" Or "Honey, should we adopt a Somali orphan or a small section of road...