Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprising second, with only 11%, about half its 1993 level. Altogether, the Communists were allocated 157 of the Duma's 450 seats; Our Home Is Russia, the party supporting President Boris Yeltsin, forms the next largest bloc, with only 55 seats. His Duma success in hand, Zyuganov is bent on winning the presidency next June, either for himself or for a popular anti-reform Communist candidate. If he succeeds, the current effort to reform and modernize Russia could be choked off in the grip of reimposed central control. The fabric of Russian society and East-West relations would suffer devastating...
Sophomore forward Henry Higdon will not return to the line up in time to play Princeton, but freshman Mike Bent who had sustained a concussion will be back...
...background out of freely placed notes and rhythms. John Capello and Bruce McKinnon were exceptionally flexible in responding to the dynamic and tempo changes in the poetry and Batiste shadowed his wife elegantly on clarinet. At one point, Michael Schwartz rose from the sax section and played keening half-bent notes, breathy whispers and other soulful sounds on his alto. This solo moment lent a new degree of subtlely-pitched emotion to the reading...
...bent over backwards to appease and satisfy some of the more dissatisfied members of the club," Zerhouni said...
...Zerhouni has proven himself an irresponsible and deceitful leader who is bent on excluding HRRA members who disagree with him," the HRC said in the message...