Word: clung
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...representative Cary Allred, tried to save money by raising tuition for out-of-state UNC students. "How much culture can we absorb from New Jersey? How much do we want?" he asked. Some legislators are criticizing Easley for being too tentative during the crisis, but the new Governor has clung to his priorities. He's still working to shrink class sizes. "We simply cannot, and will not, let a budget shortfall become an education shortfall," said Easley. He sounds good, for a guy in a straitjacket...
...four bloody wars, producing hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of refugees. At home, Milosevic’s regime bred widespread corruption, as an oligarchy of his closest allies became immensely rich at the expense of the state and the people. Meanwhile, during his 13-year rule, Milosevic clung to power by any means necessary: he rigged elections, crushed popular unrest and persecuted and killed independent journalists, opposition leaders and student activists. To finally unseat Milosevic in October of last year, the people of Yugoslavia had to take to the streets by the millions...
Jillian's August 1998 death crushed her mom, but it may also change how the U.S. government fights its war on drugs like ecstasy. Jillian's overdose--the coroner can't say precisely from what--and the sad 16 days she clung to life at Charity Hospital enraged doctors there. Federal agents began investigating, and in January a grand jury indicted three of the men who ran the club under a novel application of a 1986 law called the Crack House Statute. It prohibits maintaining a property "for the purpose of...distributing or using a controlled substance." Congress wrote...
...DYLAN, his majestic cragginess beamed via satellite from Australia. But most of the surreal celebrity high jinks were reserved for the Vanity Fair postparty at Mortons, where a single terrorist bomb could have instantly made Drew Carey the most powerful man in show business. At the bash, TOM CRUISE clung to his publicist, and Calista Flockhart, Lucy Liu and Lara Flynn Boyle formed the world's skinniest posse near the dance floor. The room froze briefly when SEAN (PUFFY) COMBS tracked down JENNIFER LOPEZ and new boyfriend CHRIS JUDD, but Puffy merely gave J.Lo a gentle peck on the cheek...
...creamed in the stock market last week, here's a little more comfort: you've got company. Lots of it. Such meager solace won't put Junior through college or send Cisco back to $82, but it sure helps the ego knowing that tens of thousands of people clung to their tech stocks as desperately as you did for the whole bloody decline. How could they not? For years tech stocks were magical. Unimagined wealth was yours simply for logging on to the New Economy mind-set, clicking three times and whispering, "There's no place like a good home...