Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene outside a posh new smoke-free office building in West Los Angeles is typical. Smokers who want to light up have to go out back, near the delivery-truck entrance, and gather next to the Dumpster. Yet Susan Castor, a production assistant for a cable-TV company, has accepted her thrice-daily trips to the Dumpster with surprising equanimity. "I'd just as soon smoke out here and not have my smoke bother anyone," says Castor, who describes herself as a light smoker. "I think it should be that...
Assuming the investigation produces no shocking revelations that somehow implicate the P.R.I. in Colosio's death, Zedillo is a strong front runner for the August ballot. His two main rivals have yet to gather steam and his party, though not the monolith it used to be, is still dominant. And, of course, he wears the glowing mantle of the martyred Colosio...
...couple of other people" have helped gather signatures, she said...
...hype" that he believes characterizes the advent of new technologies, asserting that it "should not be...swallowed without thought." Yet lack of thought pervades his editorial. Liu wants us to wait until we have complete information about a plan before endorsing it; would that he had tried to gather more complete information before blindly flailing at systems like Clipper...
...back, because we're not out to take any advantage of anybody. We are only able to act on the knowledge we had at the time. But there were activities that we didn't know anything about that have only recently been brought to our attention. And as we gather more information, we will act appropriately, as we did based on the information we had at a previous time...