Word: follow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coyly remarked that "I have not shut the door on the possibility," and incumbent Edward I. Koch, who has been hurt by Giuliani's prosecutions of corrupt henchmen, allowed that the 44- year-old prosecutor would be a "very formidable candidate." Alternatively, the politically untested Giuliani might elect to follow in the footsteps of crime buster Thomas Dewey a half-century ago and run for Governor against Democrat Mario Cuomo next year...
...Peter Ueberroth about beer drinking at the ballpark. When actor Charlie Sheen alluded to a past run-in with the law, Sajak politely refrained from pressing ahead but at least seemed aware of why. "I wouldn't want to * break a time-honored talk-show tradition and ask a follow-up question," he cracked. What's encouraging is that Sajak gives the impression that someday he might...
Akihito too took up his imperial duties. Dressed in a morning coat, he gave an audience to 243 government officials and their spouses. Speaking in ordinary Japanese rather than the stylized court language favored by his father at his accession, Akihito promised to follow Japan's 1947 democratic constitution...
Tourists and Florentines alike often forget their carefully timed itineraries so that they can follow the progress. Dutch traveler David Casale could not understand why the city was so apologetic. "It's absolutely fascinating. I can see you might get upset if this was for an underground car park, but they are discovering something important here." Mary Rau, an American visitor to Florence who lives in London, curtailed time at the Uffizi Gallery to stare at the hole in the ground. "See the archways they are uncovering? And they're bringing up shards of pottery. They're onto something...
Last October a similar popular uprising deposed the leadership of the ethnically diverse province of Voivodina. But when Montenegrins tried to follow suit a few days later, riot police brutally crushed their demonstrations. This time police did not intervene as protesters demanded that the government step down for abusing power and mismanaging the economy...