Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roommates thought the whole situation was great and envied my early-on success in the romantic front. I was not so sure, but their enthusiasm convincedme to have a good time at the formal and to continue our friendship. So, whenever he came over we would talk for hours, but I never mentioned my lack of passion; I guess he must have just thought things were moving a little slowly...
...young Eritrean from northern Ethiopia, William Ahmed was arrested in 1984 on suspicion of harboring guerrillas from the Eritrean People's Liberation Front and was packed off to a prison in Addis Ababa. Tortured repeatedly over the next four years, Ahmed was finally moved to a hospital. From there, he escaped to Djibouti, where he purchased a Somalian passport and a ticket to Canada...
...Regents exams are a crucial rite of passage: doing well greatly improves their chances of getting into college. Last week thousands of students learned that much of their cramming would go to waste, when the New York Post splashed the answer sheet to the Regents chemistry exam across its front page. An angry state education commissioner, Thomas Sobol, postponed the test...
...fumes from the spill wafted by the beach-front mansions in Newport, cleanup crews promptly deployed booms to contain as much of the spreading slick as possible. Robert L. Bendick, director of the state department of environmental management, reported that the disaster had attracted so many curiosity seekers that they were hampering cleanup efforts. The department ordered sightseers off the beaches until after the cleanup, and boaters were asked to stay at their docks...
...Palestinians want more. They say to us, 'We know you're here to assuage your guilt, and that's fine as far as it goes. Now what we need is to organize some joint actions.' They want us to refuse army service and lie down with them in front of the bulldozers when an Arab house is ordered destroyed. Because we won't do things like that, the Palestinians leave with unfulfilled expectations. We could be doing more harm than good...