Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...military standoff could provide the opening diplomats are looking for. With war-weariness and lower morale setting in, even the Serbs may be interested now. The Contact Group still hopes it can persuade Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to provide the extra push that will get his Bosnian Serb kin to the bargaining table. If the new offensive that exploded last week shows both sides they are on a path to greater violence in a war neither can win, the moribund negotiations could take on new life...
...year-old Children's Television Workshop, producer of such acclaimed programs as The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact and Square One TV, is down to a single show in first-run production, namely Sesame Street. In February, abc canceled ctw's animated Saturday-morning science program CRO, and its pbs show Ghostwriter is on indefinite hiatus, having lost its funding. In the fiscal year that ended in June 1994, ctw lost $5.8 million, and two weeks ago it had to lay off 47 people -- 12% of its staff...
...passages should be read aloud: "My spankings were a kind of family sporting event ... Unless Mother managed to get me down in a corner, she would have to hold one of my wrists to keep me within flyswatter distance while she flailed in my direction. At best, she made contact about ten percent of the time ... Locked together this way, the two of us would spin from room to room with Grandma at our perimeter in her wheelchair, scolding and bitching and calling down the wrath of God on that spoiled ungrateful child...
...contentious 5-4 decision that pitted free speech against the rights of victims, the Supreme Court ruled that ambulance-chasing lawyers cannot contact accident victims or their families within 30 days of an injury. The Justices reinstated a Florida law that barred the solicitations, as Justice Sandra Day O'Connor put it, to "forestall the outrage and irritation" of victims. The ruling reverses a 1977 Supreme Court decision that lawyers have a free-speech right to advertise their services. In dissenting from today's ruling, Justice Anthony Kennedy called the decision "censorship pure and simple," and a "serious departure" from...
...winning schools, which will split a $10,000 prize, took very different approaches. The third- and fourth-graders of the Nueva School in Hillsborough, California, studied American social history in the 1940s by making online contact with people who lived through the period and asking them some sharp and provocative questions. (Example: "How did you feel about Eleanor Roosevelt, and does it compare to what you think of Hillary Clinton...