Word: closely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Forbes spent even more, a lavish $2 million that included that ultimate enticement in the brutal Iowa summer, an air-conditioned tent. It may have been worth every penny, since it establishes him as the alternative candidate. His campaign quickly tried to capitalize on the results, pointing out that close to 70 percent of the voters didn't want Bush. Of course, looking at it that way means that 80 percent of them didn't want Forbes...
...ended up with only 1,428 votes to show for it. Quayle's eighth-place showing left him below even no-hope Republican pundit Alan Keyes, but his campaign manager gamely promised to stay in, if not 'til the last dog dies, then at least until the polls close in New Hampshire...
...Close to four years ago, on the verge of departing junior college for other bright parts of the world, we all fell into that mad, senile craze of passing around empty autograph books to close friends and oblique acquaintances alike to have them fill the pages with sentimental collectibles. I was a popular kid, I got reams of good feelings, wads of "Never Forget Me"s and "Friends Forever...
...pilot took evasive action, because the choppers weren?t carrying even defensive systems such as flares to distract heat-seeking missiles -- although it was only back at the base that we discovered how close we?d come to being hit. When I got back to the office, I learned that our stringer in Karachi had been taken to the area on a similar trip by the Pakistani military. So there was a reporter from TIME on the Pakistani side when we were fired on. As always, we?re covering both sides...
...permutation, it seems, in a year pockmarked by variations on a tragic theme. Bullets flying again, this time in the lobby of a Jewish community center in Los Angeles, in the middle of a sunny day. The victims number five, one, a five-year-old boy, close to it. Three of them are little children, so young that among their peers, the luckier innocents, some were smiling and holding hands as their rescuers led them to safety. Extra cruel this time...