Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...critical piece of Harvard's top ranked medical education has been put in jeopardy by federal budget cuts, University officials say. And to head off what they call an impending crisis of teaching hospital funding, Harvard's lobbyists are taking drastic action...
...with a hot-headed character named Nute (pronounced Newt), whose attack on the defenseless planet of Naboo has all the speed and surprise of the Republican revolution. Nute's ally in the Galactic Senate is known as Lott, and Lott's main aim is to tie up Naboo's call to arms in committee, allowing it to die a quiet death, a la campaign-finance reform...
...other method of preparation took place the morning before the big event, when I ate Wheaties and put on my lucky shirt. Never having played sports seriously, I didn't actually have a lucky shirt, so I just picked one and called it lucky. If I didn't do well, I would just call it my unlucky shirt and throw it away. I spent most of the morning on the shirt thing...
...dictator? Whenever the environmental movement needs someone to gather the troops worldwide, it turns to a tall, understated activist who rides his bicycle to work, wears flannel shirts and has a unique ability to herd the masses toward a common goal. His name is Denis Hayes, but you can call him Mr. Earth Day. He launched the first one in April 1970, turned it into a global festival for Earth Day 1990 and is looking ahead to the biggest eco-event he can imagine: Earth...
...activist settled down and entered Harvard Law School with an eye to influencing public policy, but a fateful assignment his first semester changed his life. Required to be an intern in a government office, Hayes called Gaylord Nelson, then a liberal U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, and volunteered to organize a series of teach-ins across the country to call attention to the environment. Energized by the memories of the ravaged forests of his youth, he dropped out of Harvard and devoted his time to organizing rallies, street demonstrations and trash cleanups. It all culminated with the first Earth Day, when...