Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LOOK AT ROSS PEROT'S ALL-NEW campaign team, you would not suspect that this man was girding himself for a four-week dash at the presidency of the United States. Gone are the professional pols and veterans of national elections who rode in on Perot's skyrocketing polls in June only to resign or be forced out in the campaign's spasm of self-destruction in July. In their place today stands a collection of old friends, obscure aides, in-laws and former military men chosen more for their unblinking allegiance to the chief than for their political acumen...
...most Harvard students, 20 minutes marks the time it takes to stroll to the Quad, dash across campus or push and shove through the lunch line at the Union...
...cheerleading slogan for Africa, coined by Tanzania's Julius Nyerere shortly after his country won its independence, was "We Must Run While They Walk." It caught the mood of euphoria and ambition, the dash of social heroism. Now the sense of heroic hope is mostly gone. Vast stretches of Africa are in worse shape than when they became independent. People routinely live at subsistence levels. Says Denys Lawrie, a mining consultant who works in West Africa: "Africans have wasted 20 years." The world's attention has gone elsewhere, and African leaders know their rations of aid will be smaller...
...clothe, feed and otherwise remunerate the athletes. The goals of the sponsors (among them the company that publishes this magazine) are straightforward. They hope that you and those with access to your credit cards will watch an event, feel good about the fingernail polish displayed by the winner, then dash out to the Official Convenience Store of the Games and buy a case...
...follow, dedicated amateurs clustered behind a pacer. Then the hump of the bell curve runs by, the anonymous pack one standard deviation from the mean. After that there are no more clumps but, rather, a constant stream, preventing you from crossing the street without careful timing and a quick dash...