Word: echo
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...ECHO BOOMERS School districts across nation face overflowing classes as baby boomers' babies come...
...initiatives." Clinton will present his "think small" approach as a steady process of building growth and opportunity through such measures as tax breaks for homeowners and assistance for inner-city job creation. National Political Correspondent Michael Duffy reports: "Clinton's speech in Chicago is designed to be an ironic echo of Bob Dole's speech in San Diego, where he said that America needs to return to the values that made it great; by contrast, the President will argue that the Repulicans are looking backward and the Democrats are looking forward." Where Dole proposed to build a bridge...
...Security receipts of well-to-do pensioners. And for a guy who pledged to simplify the tax code, Dole offered a plan with enough special breaks and incentives to keep accountants busy for years. So his notion of abolishing the Internal Revenue Service "as we know it" (a deliberate echo of Clinton's 1992 pledge on welfare) might take a while...
...games will go on." those emphatic words were spoken by Francois Carrard, director general of the International Olympic Committee, after a homemade pipe bomb exploded in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park at 1:21 Saturday morning. His spirited announcement at 5:20 a.m. was an echo of the last time that violence devastated, but did not halt, the Olympic Games, when 11 members of the Israeli team were killed by Palestinians in Munich in 1972. But this determination not to let a terrorist act obliterate the Olympic spirit was also a stance against an unwanted future--against an awful time...
...artists to build a set of picnic tables that were cut around Cabot's trees, some that fit snugly into the terraced corners of Whitman Hall and others that were free-standing. These tables are places to linger over a meal outside and listen to Hannah's sparkling laugh echo across the Quad; they are surfaces to sketch out thesis notes and to do take-home exams. One table, tipped on its side, becomes a backstop for a pitcher when Julian, our senior tutor, steps up to home plate and slugs a ball into the cupola on top of Briggs...