Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is only one again of that trio that faced a life so peculiar that only they could understand one another. "They rarely made a decision without checking with the other," said a board member of Harvard's Kennedy School. Jackie sheltered them from the garish glare. "I don't want my children to live here anymore," she said in anguish after Bobby's assassination, fearing America's violence. She was also wary of the immense pull of the hyperactive clan and the demons that came with it. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin told Jackie at Caroline's wedding how striking...
...students had persisted with their challenge, the court would have proceeded to the second claim of the suit, which argued that the College's administrative board proceedings were so unjust that they exceeded the wide area of discretion the government usually gives to college disciplinary processes...
...plaintiffs had maintained their innocence all along, but the College had filed for preemptive "summary judgement" on the second claim, arguing that the administrative board had sufficient reason to believe the students had accepted money for work they had not performed...
...opened the door, stepped into a mound of McDonald's garbage and then wedged the rest of my body into the car, up against the surfboard which ran diagonally through the interior. Kid Driver's precious board travelled in a silver cushioned bag. (He later told me the surfboard cost more than the car itself.) Once I managed to close the door, he hit the gas and we pulled onto the pavement, Dukes of Hazzard style, with a plume of dirt behind us. I fastened my seatbeat...
...that neither side is willing to make." The White House knows it, the Senate knows it, and judging by the polls ?- which still favor Clinton and his mantra of "first things first" (Medicare and education) - the public senses it too. Would most Americans like a 10 percent across-the-board tax cut? Sure they would. But they believe Larry Summers and Alan Greenspan and even Clinton when they say 10 percent is too much, and too much is a bad idea. The GOP moderates knew that too. But the party needed a win, and Denny Hastert asked so nicely...