Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goal. The cancer that has to be excised is Nicaragua. We can try and help those people who want freedom to bring it about themselves. We have a right to help the people of Nicaragua who are demanding what we think are any people's rights--the rights to determine their own government...
...some ways," explains Steinbrenner, who owns a trotter and a pacer. "You don't do as many of the exciting and dangerous things you used to do. It was skydiving or this." Of course, if Steinbrenner is still thrill seeking after winning the charity race, he can always bring back Billy Martin to manage...
...form of generosity, almost, but one that has come unhinged. Ideally, world-class plundering should try to pay its way as entertainment. The Romans had a genius for transforming loot into colossally vulgar display, ostentation on an imperial scale. The Emperor Elagabalus, it is said, ordered his slaves to bring him 10,000 lbs. of cobwebs. When they finished the task, Elagabalus observed, "From this, one can understand how great a city is Rome." Louis XIV of France wore a diamond-covered coat that, at the turn of the 18th century, was worth a dazzling 14 million francs...
...Western Michigan, being from Kalamazoo, doesn't look like they'll bring many people," ticket official Keith Kozlowski says. "If we played Michigan State or Michigan, there are lots of alumni in the area...
...other defendants were charged with conspiracy in the assassination. Herrera recalled a meeting with Marcos before the trial began in which the former President asked prosecutors to limit their indictments and suggested how facts might be suppressed. Throughout the discussion, Herrera said, Marcos subtly badgered him to bring reduced charges against some of the defendants, which he later did. At the end of the meeting, Herrera maintained, "Marcos stood up, looked straight in my face and said, 'I am a grateful man. I know how to reciprocate.' " Some witnesses at the Ver trial have indicated that they might wish...