Word: assistant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Junior Laura Flynn scored the lone goal with 30 minutes gone, first half, on senior Laurie Uustal's assist...
...stock market trading at less than half its peak value of late 1989 and investors convinced that the government would do little to stop the slide. But last week officials announced an unprecedented $86 billion rescue package. Amounting to 2.3% of GNP, the bailout will increase public works programs, assist small- and medium-size businesses and provide tax incentives for industrial investment. The government also promised to ease stock-purchase regulations and help banks sell real estate they now hold as collateral on bad loans...
...because that word is forever linked to Peter Mark Roget, the man who practically invented it. An English physician and lifelong logophile, Roget was 73 in 1852 when he published his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition. Today Roget's International Thesaurus still hews to its promise. It is the best of its kind, a veritable arsenal of words and phrases with their synonyms, antonyms and related terms, all classified and organized to help writers and speakers say clearly what they mean...
...city itself. Cities are famous for gobbling up soldiers. I haven't done the detailed analysis, but a figure of 75,000 would probably be modest, if there is resistance. And the resistance has to be handled 24 hours a day by people on the ground. Air power can assist, but it can't stop people from reoccupying positions...
...addition to handling all of the publicrecords, the city clerk will now oversee theoperation of the council office and assist thecouncillors in "policy-making responsibilities...