Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that I did. Not entirely. Okay, so I skied off the side of the trail a few times, but I never hit a tree. I fell down a few times, but everybody does. I kept my knees bent. I leaned into my turns. More mechanical than graceful, I didn't slice through the snow with the grace of Roger Moore in "The Spy Who Loved Me." But I didn't completely suck...
...lifted. Security officers say Whitley has improved communications between the prisoners and the 1,545-member staff. Inmates credit Whitley with providing new educational and recreational programs. Most important, inmates feel they have an advocate in Whitley at a time when the courts and the Louisiana legislature seem bent on locking up felons and throwing away the key. "He's made a lot of difference," says Nathan Arnold, who is serving a life sentence for murder. "People have started feeling like people again...
That demand came in a blitz of initiatives. Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters banned the Nationalist Front, a 130-member radical group with no apparent connection to Molln but a bent for terror, and set his sights on other right- wing extremists. Police raided 51 houses across the country in one day, uncovering caches of weapons and propaganda. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's denunciation of the murders, unlike many of his earlier comments on violence, ^ bore a note of genuine concern: "What has appeared here is an act of brutality that for every humane sensibility is incomprehensible...
...restore some state controls over the economy during the transition to a free market. In another move aimed at defusing political tensions, Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Poltoranin, an archenemy of the hard-liners, stepped down. He wanted, he said, "to protect the President from mounting attacks from an opposition bent on revenge...
...half the population, must go, he says, or Latvia's culture will perish. The young woman walks away crying. A Russian man born in Latvia and determined to stay tries to argue. "You can't blame all Russians," he says, his hands shaking. Then a Latvian woman, her body bent from age, leans into the crowd to answer. "Take your factories," she shouts, "take your tanks, take yourselves and leave...