Word: alongs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grubbs was not yet done. "And if all that I have mentioned for you is not enough, we have something more for you. If you can bring some of your friends and neighbors along with you to vote for Steve Forbes, we will give you something really special: a gold Forbes pin for your lapel." I looked at some of my friends, and I'd swear they were close to laughing out loud. But that resolute politeness prevailed. (A local reporter said later, "I was waiting for the Forbes secret decoder...
...American people than to my colleagues. I could see that most of my colleagues had already made up their minds. I saw games being played. But this was not a game with me. I looked up in the balcony, and I saw people who had been with me all along on this issue. Victims and families of victims. We're the ones who know what it's like. We're the ones who know the pain...
...better buddies. The AOL and Microsoft bosses have spent the past week in a mini-war over this hugely popular software, which analysts consider the second most valuable piece of digital real estate in the world, after the Windows desktop. Because AOL is the undisputed king of IM, Microsoft (along with a host of other IM providers) is trying to gain access to the 40 million folks using AOL's free IM software--and is occasionally succeeding. AOL, claiming concern for users' password protection, is trying to block its rivals' advances. Net result: a cat-and-mouse game of code...
While Congress remains bitterly divided along party lines on other issues, opposition to climate-change initiatives has surprisingly broad support on both sides of the aisle. Some lawmakers dismiss worries about global warming as little more than "liberal claptrap," as California Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher puts it. Others interpret the climate moves as a sly attempt by the Administration to enact by bits and pieces what the Senate declared it would not do when it voted 95-0 to oppose the Kyoto treaty, an international pact to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions that is strongly supported by Vice President Al Gore...
Nearly two-thirds of the respondents said that diversity improved class discussions, and roughly 62 percent said diversity clearly or moderately enhanced their ability to work more effectively and get along better with others...