Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three points separated the Crimson from the Bears with one match remaining, about 40 pounds separated Brown's heavyweight from freshman Dawid Rechul, giving the Bears a huge advantage. Rechul gave Brown's Bronson Lingamfelter a run for his money, keeping the first period scoreless. But despite a valiant effort, Rechul was could not hold on and was pinned with eight seconds left in the second period...
...three points separated the Crimson from the Bears with one match remaining, about forty pounds separated Brown's heavyweight from freshman Dawid Rechul, giving the Bears a huge advantage. Rechul gave Brown's Bronson Lingamfelter a run for his money, keeping the first period scoreless. But despite a valiant effort, Rechul was could not hold on and was pinned with eight seconds left in the second period...
...particular, the impeachment has given new energy to a far-reaching, and largely unnoticed, structural change in the American polity: the institutionalization of the prosecutorial culture. This rests on two laws Congress passed in 1978 in a well-intentioned but misguided effort to immunize the republic against another Watergate...
None of this is intrusive, but there is something intense about the discreet effort that has gone into it--analysis raised to poetry. It demands close looking--and gets it, from the little dog in the foreground with its back to us, transfixed by the sight. And things are complicated a little further by a second window, on the right, that lights up the mother and child and leaves a brilliant splash of gold on the brass bed warmer hanging above the mother's head, like a displaced halo...
Though the effort to oust Clinton will prove highly damaging to Republicans, it may turn out in the long run to be of great historical benefit. Just as experience has taught us to try to avoid "another Vietnam," this episode will teach future Congresses to seek to avoid impeachments that lack popular support, are contrary to the national interest and are unwinnable. ROBERT H. WOLFE North Woodmere...