Word: brought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brought together 95 participants in seminars designed to provide skills for advancing in higher education and for performing better in a current job, Levine says...
Bloch, on Bush's orders, gave the suitcase to an agent of the CIA, not the KGB. That agent, in turn, brought the case to the youth group with which Ollie North is performing his court-ordered community service. Imitating "Uncle Ollie," the kids immediately shredded the bag's contents...
Well, it's about time the United States brought out the flyswatter. The fact is, these "mosquito bites" amount to more than a minor irritation. They are costing the United States the lives of its citizens, most recently perhaps that of U.S. Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, who, ironically, was a member of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in Lebanon...
...current luminaries. But salaries and network bidding wars entered a new phase in 1976, when Arledge lured Walters away from NBC for $1 million a year. The rise of superagents like Richard Leibner (who represents Sawyer, Rather, Shriver and Mike Wallace, among other network news stars) has brought about an escalation of salaries and an increase in the clout these personalities wield...
...North Dakota. Fort Union served as a linchpin in John Jacob Astor's lucrative beaver-fur and buffalo trade with the Assiniboin, Crow and Blackfeet Indians. In its halcyon days, which lasted a quarter- century, the post dominated the upper Missouri from behind an elegant, whitewashed palisade. Annual steamboats brought artists and ethnologists. The bourgeois, or superintendent, maintained a splendid table, and French wine flowed in an imposing residence topped with a bell tower. With its bastions of stone and 63-ft. flagpole aflutter with Old Glory, Fort Union conveyed a flashy, mercantile style and substance until smallpox twice struck...