Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a box that I keep underneath my desk of all the letters I've received since I was two years old. I've had the same box since I was 10; it's overflowing now, the sides are coming apart, and the red piece of yarn that holds it together is badly frayed...
...kill three strangers and injure 22 others, he had to be powerfully angry. Yet he must have enormous patience to experiment with explosives and triggers and not blow his fingers off. "When you see this stuff, some of these components bear markings of having been put together and taken apart repeatedly," said Chris Ronay, the FBI's top bomb expert in the 1980s. "It's not just that he's creating something carefully. He's played with it for a while. He marks things with numbers so he can put them together again right. He's leaving a little...
...lobbying firms. There he earned a six-figure income representing a client list that included a Haitian dictator and several Japanese megacorporations. In 1988 he dipped back into politics as a strategist for Jesse Jackson's campaign. Brown's skills as go-between kept the insurgent Jackson from tearing apart the Democratic Convention--an experience that left Brown with a keen sense of how divided the Democrats were as well as a conviction that he was the only one who could unite them...
...final 1000 meters saw the heavyweights fall apart, however, a fact that Donaldson attributes largely to the boat's inexperience rowing together and lack of training at the 2000-meter level...
...BLAME FOR THE royal split on Prince Charles [World, March 11]. He was dealing with a woman who exhibited such extremes of emotional abuse as throwing herself down the stairs in an attempt to prevent Charles from going hunting. This behavior is symptomatic of a person who, apart from being emotionally unstable, is unreasonably demanding of her spouse. Imagine if Charles had thrown himself down the stairs in an attempt to stop Diana from going to her gym. What sexist double standards we live by! CHRIS DWYER Bondi, Australia...