Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Band has had a rocky relationship with its fellow students in the past. But the support we received that night, and the enthusiasm of the fans who were willing to join us and cheer with us 'til the end, was a bigger rush than any Bandie can ask for from his or her peers. KATE S. WISWELL...
...installment dared us to trust him. The first week was an All-Starr game, in which a crusading prosecutor, after 3 1/2 frustrating years of sniffing through sour Arkansas land deals, suddenly swooped down on the White House, subpoenas in hand, FBI agents in tow, asserting his right to ask just about anyone just about anything that had to do with the President's most intimate acts. Even people disgusted by what the President might have done were disturbed by what it might take to catch...
Perhaps now would be a good time to ask ourselves which we fear more: that cloning will produce multiple copies of crazed despots, as in the film The Boys from Brazil; or that it will lead to the society portrayed in Gattaca, the recent science-fiction thriller in which genetic enhancement of a privileged few creates a rigid caste structure. By acting sensibly, we might avoid both traps...
...herself sprawled on the ice after slipping out of a jump. After the first fall came another; then she had to put a hand down on the ice to steady herself after a shaky landing. She had panicked. Coming off the ice, Kwan could only shake her head and ask over and over, "What did I do?" Lipinski took the title, and a fierce rivalry was born...
Will privatization protect disabled workers, provide a minimum level of protection for low income workers, ensure benefits for non-working spouses or provide protection from market fluctuations? And what kind of taxes will be necessary to fund the transition? These are the kinds of questions we must ask our-selves before we can make an informed and sensible choice...