Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jack isn't worth sticking it out at the Republican convention any longer. The Nightline host is heading home, claiming that amid the puffery and made-for-TV grandstanding, there just isn't any news to cover at the GOP pow-wow. Koppel is taking most of his crew along, and says he won't bother even showing up at the Democratic Convention. "This convention is more of an infomercial than a news event," Koppel said at the end of his broadcast Tuesday night. "Nothing surprising has happened. Nothing surprising is anticipated." ABC News is continuing to cover the convention...
...very same as our dear Science Center coffee cart and Loker Commons fare). One morning, as I sat in that coffee shop with the entertainment supplement to the Seattle Times and a cappuccino, feeling quite sophisticated searching for cultural enlightenment to the tune of an espresso drink, a crew of construction workers left their concrete solidifying in the forms for the opera house foundation, crossed the street, walked past me into the cafe and congregated under the "Order Here" sign. How funny, I thought, for men in mud-encrusted boots and greasy overalls to want to order coffee...
...contrast of the espresso drink with the well-soiled workers matched their project; it seemed oddly fitting that a crew of rough workers turning a messy city block into a tribute to high culture would drink elegant drinks. In fact, the contrast reflects the entire mood of today's Seattle. Just now, as flocks of young professionals move to that young, rainy corner of the world, cities like Seattle and Portland try all sorts of culture on for size. Like a kid searching her mother's closet clothes to try on, they emerge with an eclectic selection--new and entertaining...
...Daily News first reported about the proposed school, the director of the New York Civil Liberties Union wrote a letter to Schools' Chancellor Rudy Crew asking him to intervene to block the opening of the school because it is discriminatory in not allowing boys. Crew and the New York City Board of Education have not officially approved the school, which they must do before it can open...
...crew was favored to win the gold but slipped to fourth behind the Romanians, Canadians and Belarussians...