Word: bring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Castro has always said, "Revolutionaries never retire," but he has been planning for the inevitable "biological transition" that will bring a new leader to that book-lined office. His brother Raul remains the designated successor. But starting perhaps half a decade ago, he began systematically replacing old revolutionary comrades in the government with young, educated technocrats. Today many party leaders, National Assembly members and Fidel's own top advisers are under 40, a form of insurance that dedicated followers of his ideals are prepared to carry on his revolutionary mission...
...Mercury program, the 40-year-old Marine would periodically be required to strap himself into the tiny pod of a spacecraft simulator and wait for technicians to set it spinning in three dimensions at speeds exceeding 30 r.p.m. Using nothing more than a joystick, Glenn would have to bring the tumbling cockpit to heel. If he succeeded, he would continue in the program. If he failed, he could be bilged...
Then perhaps all those student surveys are true. Perhaps we know that we are buying the name not for ourselves but for the impact it has on our future, with the hope that there is something behind the name that will bring us lasting luck...
...going to bring in some very interesting people, people who have not come here before," he said...
...Richard Butler reheat a souffl?? The Iraq weapons-inspection standoff, which looked set to explode into war last November, has been edged off front pages despite remaining unresolved. Now the chief U.N. weapons inspector looks set to bring the crisis once more to a head by demanding access to a "presidential" site deemed off-limits by Baghdad...