Word: act
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They'll be a hard act to follow," she said. "They've been very, very engaged on every level...
...city manager's two-year contract will automatically be renewed for one additional year if the City Council does not act by Dec. 30, since a search for a new city manager requires at least a six-month search...
...locally manufactured high-grade plastic explosives, which would imply that someone in the military is selling it. Then it?s transported through all sorts of checkpoints, probably by bribing officials. And then the perpetrators manage to find experts trained in the use of such explosives who are prepared to act as mercenaries. Building a bomb inside an apartment building is a lot easier when there are all sorts of unregistered businesses being run from many Moscow apartment buildings. And then, straight after the attack, the authorities announce the name of a wanted man, only to admit hours later that...
Tremendous is the operative word if you're considering home ed. Although some dual-career couples and single parents attempt it, 95% of home-schooling families have one parent who is not working outside the home. Parents have to act as teachers, administrators, social directors and more. Many just plain burn out before high school...
...were to send troops and threaten them, that would be unlikely to ease tensions. And the money does influence them." In these wacky post-Cold War times, it seems, one way for states short of funds and friends to get invited back to the party is simply to act a little crazy...