Word: booth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other landlords agreed, accusing tenant groups of being unable to accept their defeat at the bench and in the voting booth...
...resulting drive was terrifying and endless. I was forced to drive over terrain and through obstacles that I had never tackled before. I drove through a toll booth and clumsily made change with the attendant, who was not amused by my awkwardness in maneuvering the car so our hands could meet, I drove through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and tried to forget that I absolutely detest tunnels. I then drove over the Verrezano Narrows Bridge. Immortalized in Saturday Night Fever, one of my favorite films, the Verrezano is the world's longest suspension bridge. And I drove over it, reaching...
...towards getting the Chinese people and leaders to look again at the Tibetan issue. And, as sure as tax cuts for the wealthy and welfare cuts for the poor will force more homeless to the streets, we can empty our pockets of change and vote wisely at the polling booth. Gregory W. Alling GSAS
...opponents ofHaitian President Jean-Betrand Aristidemay be targeted for assassination has infuriated the White House and State Department,TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothreports. "It's Defense acting as a renegade department," a senior State official said after getting a phone call from a "livid" White House this morning. Booth says U.S. officials fear the release of such lists, compiled with dubious information, only undercut U.S. efforts in Haiti. Besides, she adds, such "hit lists" already abound in Haiti: "We're not going down these lists and warning people," a U.S. diplomat in Port-au-Prince told TIME today. "There...
...real thugs still involved as Aristide supporters on the left and they're settling accounts from the past," the official said. The matter has taken on political urgency because President Clinton plans to visit Port-au-Prince on Friday -- the first U.S. president to do so in 60 years. Booth reports that an FBI investigation has "apparently implicated" Beaubrun, whom the Haitian president had appointed over U.S. objections to pacify army supporters. But, the Administration official adds, "There is no reason to believe that Aristide is involved or knew about...