Word: frame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invitation of the White House, representatives of civil rights groups began talks with the White House last month to frame a compromise bill that Bush could sign. But with the White House still having failed to put forward any alternative language, the civil rights groups are saying privately that they may withdraw from the talks, which they charge may be no more than an Administration device to delay Senate action on the bill...
...hollows. In Shadyside, a village of 4,300 people along the Ohio River, residents were unaware that in the darkness a 40-ft. wall of water had risen in Wegee Creek, which is usually ankle deep, and was rolling toward them. It hit with enough force to knock frame houses off their foundations, carry mobile homes downstream and buckle the concrete walls of a tavern. One patron was carried away by the water; another survived by clinging to a bar stool. Not far away, the onrushing water smashed into the house of Robert and Rose Ramsey, crushing the woman...
...Newspapers write that, but they are wrong. Of course, there is a certain urgency, but it is not caused by me. I feel that urgency. When I drew up the ten-point unification program in the Bundestag last November, I started with a completely different time frame. I thought that in 1990 we would have a contractual or treaty-based community with East Germany, that in 1991 or 1992 we would have confederative structures. Then in 1993 or 1994 we could have unification...
...just now) and you're not, maybe your mind wanders, and you begin wondering just how much he can see through those bottle-bottom glasses, or whether the toothpick he's chewing is the same one he started the day with. This puts you in the wrong frame of mind when Lund (as he does just now) pushes 100 chips worth $1,000 each into...
Romano appears to be a man of senatorial affability--an earnest gladhander who loves to greet strangers and to seek out their motivations. With a lanky frame that easily tops six feet and a genial, syrupy Southern drawl, he is given to wide, simple, declarative gestures...