Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bauer's opponents, but what if the stakes are higher: the whole Congress? Abortion has long divided the Republican Party, and divided parties lose elections. When the 165 members of the Republican National Committee gather for their annual winter meeting this week in Palm Springs, Calif., they'll have a stink bomb on their hands--a resolution that would prohibit the R.N.C. from funding any candidate not opposed to partial-birth abortion. Bauer didn't write the resolution, but his politics inspired it. "This isn't a matter of ideology, it's a matter of human decency," says Colleen Parro...
Harvard prides itself on attracting students from every state, becoming a cultural and geographical microcosm of the U.S., a melting pot. (Or is it now a salad bowl to the savvy anthropologist?) But when 18-year-olds from across the country gather in Cambridge, how do their backgrounds affect their Harvard experiences...
...clarified; at the moment the only mechanism is essentially for the president to declare himself incapable of governing. Yeltsin's closest aides will circle the wagons around him, forward movement in politics and economic change will come to a halt, and the debilitating struggle to succeed Yeltsin will gather force...
...hard to see why. Even now that the transcript has come to light, secrecy and obfuscation still pervades in the armed forces. "It would seem morally wrong to gather prospective or retrospective data on the efficacy of unproven drugs in military volunteers facing exposure to biological or chemical weapons," the ethics committee chairman, Col. Arthur Anderson, told the Plain Dealer. Translation: If veterans really contracted Gulf War syndrome via an Army needle, this was one serious screw...
Students clutching small candles gather in the evening on the steps of Memorial Church for a vigil to recognize the plight of workers in the grape field of California...