Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOUNT VERNON, N.Y.--This summer Eugenie A. Lang '00 drove down Route 9 from Scarsdale to Mount Vernon for her summer job. Along the way the houses became closer together, the trees thinner and the crowds lingering on street corners more diverse...
...Crimson's roster is 18-strong, much closer to the large squads of traditional water polo powers, and it includes a healthy mix of veterans and younger players. Zimmerman is fully recovered from his hand woes and ready to attempt a return to the form that placed him on the United States National "B" Team two summers...
...policymakers in Washington. It is light-years ahead of its predecessor, the Nodong-1, a one-stage rocket with a range of up to 620 miles. Multiple-stage vehicles require expertise in guidance systems and other tricky technology. Thus last week's launch means the North is a step closer to building intercontinental ballistic missiles that could reach the mainland U.S., according to Richard Speier, a Carnegie Foundation consultant and former missile proliferation expert at the Pentagon...
...That distance -- nearly seven miles -- stretches delivery time to 51 minutes. "It really slows up our ability to get troops on the ground," an Army officer says. Boeing, the plane's builder, is working with the Air Force and Army to figure out how to fly C-17's closer together without jeopardizing paratroopers...
According to O'Reilly, often sex offenders likeElster first plead innocent because they cannotadmit their crimes but later decide to professtheir guilt in return for lighter sentences whenthe prospect of jail looms closer...