Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final two events, Taubman and Fox put up low numbers, placing second and fifth to close out the meet. Harvard's strong finish was good enough to distance it from Tufts, but left them five points behind St Mary's to end the competition...
Unlike the classes before it, most of the Class of '49 entered Harvard after the war in the Pacific drew to a close in August...
Prospects for the mental-health bill look even weaker in the House than in the Senate, where Domenici chairs the influential budget committee. House majority whip Tom DeLay of Texas, who has close ties to business groups, was 1 of just 17 members of the House to vote against a very weak 1996 version of the Domenici-Wellstone proposal; he also seems to have a deep suspicion of psychology in general. Just last month, he accused the American Psychological Association of trying to "normalize pedophilia" after the association published a study suggesting that not all childhood victims of sexual abuse...
...majority of Americans now think our problems are spiritual rather than economic," says G.O.P. presidential contender Gary Bauer. Nor can piety hurt, when polls increasingly show the downside of Gore's association with Bill Clinton. The latest TIME/CNN poll indicates almost half the public views Gore as too close to the President...
Passed unanimously by Republicans and Democrats on the nine-member committee, the Cox report depicts a relentlessly malevolent China steadily stripping away every American military secret to threaten the U.S. with deadly new nuclear missiles. It slips close to hysteria, though, when it says, for example, that every one of the 80,000 Chinese who travel annually to the U.S. is tasked by military-intelligence officials to glean technological tidbits, or that 3,000 U.S.-based "front" companies do the bidding of hidden Beijing connections...