Word: alongs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bill would attach the referendum to the presidential ballot later this month, along with a referendum to increase the council's term bill fee. For the referendum to be binding, at least as many students as voted in the first election of the school year must vote...
...sense, the freshness of Thoreau's long-undeciphered writings should surprise no one. He, along with Mark Twain, essentially invented the plain but supple American prose style, carefully composed to sound casual. So, to stress the point that "high blueberries" must be looked for in swamps, Thoreau writes, "When I see their dense curving tops ahead, I expect a wet foot." He dresses his adages in homespun: "All kinds of harvestry, even pulling turnips when the first cold weather numbs your fingers, are interesting if you have been the sower and have not sowed too many...
...Along with the other paperweights that I've picked up: on a shelf in my office. I got something engraved on it. Something like, THE VING RHAMES AWARD PRESENTED TO JACK LEMMON...
...trusted? Absolutely, said a majority of members at a special session of TIME's Board of Economists, which met recently in Washington to debate the budgetary outlook. For this occasion the board included some of the country's most important public officials as well as economists. They split along party lines on what to do with the money. But most had little doubt that the money would be there...
Then began what both sides describe as more of a "dating process" than a financial negotiation. Blending two corporate cultures can be a problem in big mergers, but it is far more crucial in small companies. If their employees do not get along with one another and leave for a more congenial atmosphere, the merged company can easily be wrecked...