Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kong, the hero of Ha Jin's Waiting (Pantheon; 308 pages; $24), is hardly the first man, in or outside of fiction, to wish to end his first marriage and wed the woman he now loves. But rarely, if ever, has such a fellow been bedeviled by the array of obstacles Lin must confront. Not only is he scrupulously moral and thus vulnerable to all the guilty pangs of wayward husbandhood, but Lin's travails occur in a place--Communist China--and during a time--the early 1960s to the early '80s--when literally all occasions conspire against the quest...
...fledgling Internet site Project Gutenberg. Since then, with less than $100,000 in foundation money and 1,000 volunteers worldwide who hunt down books, type or scan them in and proofread, he has assembled a library of 2,250 entries. Go to www.gutenberg.net and you will find an eclectic array of works in the public domain, ranging from the Bible to Alice in Wonderland; from the Divine Comedy in Italian to Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway, translated from Old Norse...
...Motioning to an array of titles nearby, she says, "Book publishing is just selling another product...
...despite the array of candidates, the winners were almost all incumbents...
...York City voters dealt a stinging rebuke to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose proposed sweeping revisions to the city charter lost by a margin of 3 to 1. The mayor's opponents characterized his proposed revisions as a power play, designed to strengthen City Hall's control over a wide array of programs and initiatives. As Giuliani conceded defeat, his Democratic foes were making gleeful predictions of the vote's effect on next year's Senate race, which is expected to pit the mayor against brand-new New Yorker Hillary Clinton...