Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, our fascination with polls obscures other issues too, including ones closer to home. We watch closely to see how Americans react to proposals for health care and social security reform, yet we care little about the proposals themselves. Few of us knew even the most basic details of Clinton's 1994 health care plan or Republican proposals for reducing the rate of increase of social security payments. All we knew was that most Americans disapproved of those plans, and that seemed to be enough...
...view of our country. The American ideals of equality, liberty and opportunity for all are, in a way, Platonic ideals that can never be attained in this imperfect world. American history, though, is replete with achievements that can inspire us in our attempts to bring the real world closer to the utopia we desire. The desperate courage of rangers on Omaha Beach, the steadfast faith of the Freedom Riders and the unshakable integrity of Washington are collective memories that we, as a nation, can draw upon for strength...
Because of the refurbishment of the Barker Center, professors and TFs in a single department now have offices in close proximity to each other--creating a closer-knit academic society and the opportunity for one-stop advising...
Since setting that mark, no other female sprinter has come closer than 10.60. And at the Seoul Olympics, where she won three gold medals, she ran the 200 meter dash in 21.34 seconds, setting another seemingly unbreakable record. Only one other woman (Marion Jones at 21.62) has ever run 200 meters in less than 21.70 seconds...
...There are visible economic differences," Lang says. "Not all the [Mount Vernon] kids drive cars. It's closer to the Bronx so its more urban...The kids pass through metal detectors when they pass into school...