Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been paying no attention to would come on the line, telling him to be patient. But had the voice, the last time it came on, talked not about patience but about how much of the world's food supply was produced in the U.S.? The voice had a familiar echo. Brinkley? Had Mike just heard David Brinkley describe how the federal ethanol program creates jobs and reduces our trade balance? Maybe not. Mike didn't want to find out. He hung up the phone. The next Sunday he was back in front of his TV set, glowering...
Coco Chanel wasn't just ahead of her time. She was ahead of herself. If one looks at the work of contemporary fashion designers as different from one another as Tom Ford, Helmut Lang, Miuccia Prada, Jil Sander and Donatella Versace, one sees that many of their strategies echo what Chanel once did. The way, 75 years ago, she mixed up the vocabulary of male and female clothes and created fashion that offered the wearer a feeling of hidden luxury rather than ostentation are just two examples of how her taste and sense of style overlap with today's fashion...
...others now echo what Harvard officials said at the time: with a mountain of educational prestige, the University could survive a semester's learning curve. Not wishing to endanger its financial reserves with an unsustainable knee-jerk reaction, Harvard bided its time. And 8 out of 10 admitted students agreed, accepting Harvard's acceptance...
...when, earlier this month, in an echo of the dolphin decision, the WTO ruled against a U.S. law blocking shrimp imports from countries whose boats endanger rare green sea turtles, the environmentalists were again ready for battle. They denounced the decision at a joint press conference, are preparing a letter to President Clinton, and have begun lobbying Congress. The Sierra Club will conduct a summer-long outreach program based on the slogan "Don't trade away the environment...
...women who decided to make this women-only were the Take Back the Night representatives from RADWAC and ECHO," she said. "It is much more radical for women to be able to eat with- out shame than for men, which is not tobelittle the problems of men who do suffer fromeating concerns...