Word: clocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the moment of decision arrived. The clock in Brasilia's fetid, smoke-filled Chamber of Deputies nudged 2:15 a.m. on Thursday as spectators squirmed restlessly after 17 hours of rasping debate. Then the result of the voting was announced: the opposition had failed to get the two-thirds majority necessary for the amendment to pass. Figueiredo was able to sway the vote in his party's favor by engaging in some personal last-minute lobbying. He countered with a compromise amendment that would initiate direct elections not next year but as early...
...turned our attention from [UNH] to the clock." Radcliffe's Gretchen Rollwagen said explaining that the lights raced the clock rather than the vastly outclassed UNH squad...
...many hours a night do I sleep?" he asks. During my freshman year I usually slept from the time the people next door stopped playing lacrosse against the fire door, until 9:42 a.m. 9:42, according to my digital clock, was when the bells in Memorial Church would ring. No one is sure...
...desperation, Massachusetts resorted to isolating a player one on one at the point during the remaining minutes of the game. But a Bergman save and a smooth clear allowed the Crimson to run down the clock till Pujols scored the last of his three goals with 18 seconds left for the 10-7 Harvard...
...protestors marched and carried placards with slogans like "Animals Don't Volunteer" and "This is Immoral" at the rally, which began last night at 6 o'clock...