Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...election night, many campaign workers will gather at Boston hotels to watch election returns on TV: Bush's supporters can attend "a victory party" at the Copley Plaza Hotel, while Clinton supporters will head for the Imperial Ballroom of the Park Plaza Hotel...
...career politician," he said. "I have training in the scientific method. I will gather together the best ideas of all parties. Together we can rise above bipartisan gridlock...
...While peace-conference moderators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen searched for ways to stop such a partition, the U.N. Security Council voted to create a war-crimes commission that will gather evidence of atrocities in former Yugoslavia. The U.N. also voted to impose a ban on military flights over Bosnia to stop Serb air strikes, but it did not authorize enforcement of the ban. President Bush had offered to enforce the no-fly zone with U.S. planes, but France and Britain feared that if a Serb plane were shot down, their ground troops in Bosnia would be vulnerable to revenge...
...effort to drive away beggars. Printed in Italian as well as Arabic -- the language of many of the city's poor -- the signs read, in part: We don't want to buy useless, superfluous goods, or see you begging. Explains Father Gianni Sangalli: "Every Sunday large crowds of immigrants gather at the doorstep of many churches in Turin asking for charity or peddling useless objects...
...growth of the extended family does not mean that huge clans will gather under one roof. "They'll want intimacy at a distance," says Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University. The extended family will be more of a network of crisscrossing loyalties and obligations. As life-spans lengthen and marriages multiply, middle-aged couples could find themselves crushed by the responsibilities of caring all at once for aging parents, frail grandparents, children still completing their education and perhaps even a stepgrandchild or two. In short, the "sandwich generation," already feeling so much pressure in the 1990s, could...