Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million members might have been forgiven for thinking they were already there, what with the most powerful man in Congress -- Trent Lott -- being their keynote speaker. But the 73-year-old Heston is on a mission to unite the moderate and hard-line gun factions, and facts aren't going to get in the way. Least of all the fact that he supported gun control back in the 1960s, nor the fact that he described AK-47s last year as "inappropriate for private use." To many users, that's like breaking one of the Ten Commandments. Nonetheless, few are prepared...
...proud champion of classic American pop fought a pitched battle against the engulfing tide of rock in the '60s. Became music's elder statesman in the '70s. Then the resurgent master of the '80s. And--at last, at the end of his days--the icon who could be forgiven anything for a song...
Armored vehicles rumble through Jakarta?s burning streets, empty except for implacable rioters; the value of the currency plummets with the rising death toll, foreign diplomats evacuate their families, and the aging dictator talks about getting ?closer to God.? Indonesians could be forgiven for thinking the impossible had become the inevitable -- that Suharto was about...
...bilingual--but still awful--come-ons (as in, "You're looking recherche this evening"); and a black bookseller stuck in a '60s time warp who is the dead woman's ex-husband. Some of their secrets go stale by the time Chase finds the murderer, but readers can be forgiven for getting caught up in the snappy repartee and libidinous diversions scattered throughout the book...
...Senate measure also provides new incentives for students to become teachers in high-need schools. If they teach for three years in such a school, their college loans will be forgiven over the next three years, up to a maximum forgiveness...