Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They asked me for 25 cents and then--boom. I got hit really hard, right across the face. They knocked me flat to the ground," he said...
...staff points out the University's anti-discrimination policy. These ground rules prohibit organizations from discriminating on the basis of race, sex, color, sexual orientation or national origin. As the staff notes, these rules are unquestionably just. And they are a valid basis for barring any organization that discriminates from receiving Harvard affiliaton...
Unfortunately, the first phase of construction ceded to the second without much warning. The job suddenly got serious. They started driving steel piles into the ground with a giant hammering machine that utilizes both explosives and a falling weight...
...streets and sweep out any government, even one declaring devotion to the people." But Gorbachev's great strength has been to take the Soviet system and its people to destinations unimagined only a few years ago. The time has come for Gorbachev to accept that there is no middle ground. As his Polish neighbors say these days, "You cannot cross a chasm in two steps...
...sentry ran to alert Escobar and others, while bodyguards opened fire with semiautomatic rifles. Escobar slipped away by running through a patch of wild cane, scuttling across a creek with planks laid over it and, finally, jumping into a speedboat and disappearing. A wide-scale ground and helicopter search failed to turn up Escobar, who is included on the U.S. Justice Department's list of the twelve most wanted Colombian drug traffickers...