Word: blanketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have always said it would be desirable for more junior faculty to be appointed [to tenured positions] but given the process you cannot make a blanket guarantee," he told The Crimson...
...current economic cycle, limiting the impact of roller-coaster economic growth. (See MONEYWATCH at end of Time Daily for the cuts' impact on consumers and financial markets.)The move exceeded most Fed-watchers' predictions and will raise the cost of borrowing for millions of Americans, throwing a wet blanket on newly-empowered Republicans' plans to cut taxes and also send other conservative economic programs into orbit. Clinton administration officials, who have refrained from criticizing the earlier Fed efforts to put the brakes on economic recovery to prevent inflation, merely emphasized the Fed's policy-making freedom. But congressional Democrats howled...
Smith was placed under a suicide watch at the Women's Correctional Center near Columbia, allowed only her glasses, Bible, blanket and pillow. A camera watches her 24 hours a day, and guards regularly pass by her 6-ft. by 18-ft. cell. Down by the lake, the first crosses appeared, and flowers, an improvised memorial for the boys everyone wanted so desperately to find, anyplace else but there...
Fundamentally, it is not too much to ask for each one of us to be judged on our own merits rather than by blanket assumptions about gender...
...their former chiefs and kill them before they got out of Haiti. The Pentagon is worried that U.S. troops will land in the middle of a reciprocal bloodbath that they would have to risk their own lives to stop -- or face opprobrium for not stopping. The U.S. hopes to blanket Haiti with enough heavily armed soldiers landing at enough different spots to squelch any disturbances quickly...