Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PEROT LEADS IN NEW POLL" has become so frequent a bulletin that the Texas billionaire's image has changed from interesting maverick to serious presidential contender. If Ross Perot does endure as a major force into autumn, one large reason will be the opinion surveys of spring, despite their notorious fragility during this period. Says pollster Peter Hart: "More than any other person I can think of in American politics, Perot has been aided and abetted by the polls...
...continues as it has begun, 1992 could turn out to be almost as bizarre as 1991, a year in which North America's spring arrived in winter, its summer in spring and its winter in autumn. The period from December 1991 to March 1992 has already gone into the National Weather Service's record books as the warmest winter in at least 97 years. It hardly rained at all in rainy Seattle in May. Texas in January was swamped with twice as much precipitation as normal, and Southern California, where it never rains, was socked with floodwaters so powerful they...
Gomes had read a 56-page issue of the conservative magazine Peninsula--an issue devoted to articles critical of homosexuality--the day before. On a cool late autumn afternoon, and in the same booming tones and grammatically immaculate sentences with which he preaches, the voice carried a new message to students: Their minister...
...recent events have made painfully clear, the cheery exterior the president witnessed at the autumn gala belied a deeply ingrained, troubling problem, one that is wrapped up in a community of difference: Racial tensions continue to rip the University fabric, as students, faculty and administrators draw seemingly uncrossable lines on issues of diversity and insensitivity...
...Momma, the embittered matriarch of the Irish-American Towne clan, permits herself a few sentimental tears. But when the party ends, Momma reminds the Roman Catholic celebrators that they have been "dancing on graves." Four days later, there will be a fresh grave to dig -- that of May, the autumn bride -- and the family will sink back into the regret and loss that threaten to smother three generations of Townes...