Word: dust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Within days a New York publisher will ship 27,000 copies of its latest release to bookstores across the country. Along with this merchandise will arrive advertising posters--de rigueur in these hard-marketing times--bearing a reproduction of the book's dust- jacket cover and 10,000 audiotapes of an unabridged reading of the words inside. Nothing particularly unusual about all this, except that the contents of the book in question have been around, in one form or another, for about 2,700 years...
...whose candle was snuffed out, and was buried in the dust, a bitter cry won't wake him, won't bring him back," Rabin sang over the television monitor in a video clip from the peace rally in Tel Aviv last November which ended with his assassination...
...their regret, when the Republicans ran on the Contract with America two years ago. Gone are any grand liberal schemes for redistributing wealth and re-engineering society. In their place is Families First, an agenda Gephardt calls "modest, realistic and achievable," and Republicans blast as election-year gorilla dust. The greatest testament to the House Democrats' new, centrist course is its embrace of the G.O.P. goal of balancing the budget by 2002--something many House Democrats continue to consider an unnecessary and thankless pursuit...
...York Times has called "one of the country's leading sociologists" has indeed become the Willie Mays--or perhaps more accurately the Jackie Robinson--of sociology by swirling academic dust clouds, never seeming afraid to stick his scholarly neck...
...Bill Clinton has been trying to hide his liberal roots. We're going to dust off those liberal roots and expose them...