Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next to the chalk outlines (which number about 40), flyers were taped to the ground with the names of Deborah Forte, Rita Hester, Tyra Hunter, Brandon Teena, Rufus Turner, Kristen Page and Chanelle Picket. Each were "trans-people" killed in recent crimes of hate...
Simpson concurred, saying, "It's hard when you're a member of Congress, you are campaigning continuously. You have to be very disciplined with your family life and make it a priority, so that your staff doesn't work you into the ground. Your staff wants you to be famous, so that they are working for a famous person...
...candidates this year seem to be racing for a middle ground...
...their platforms, council members harp on similar issues like advising reform, more money for student groups and faculty diversity. Even the most progressive of candidates ground their agenda in these tangible student concerns...
Which brings us now to publishing. If ever there was a happy hunting ground for eccentrics, publishing is it. The industry produced more rare blooms than any other, ranging from Joseph Pulitzer (1874-1911), publisher of the New York World, to the very much alive Richard Mellon Scaife, 66, publisher of Pittsburgh's Tribune Review. Pulitzer suffered from nervousness so acute that he lived out his later years in double-insulated, soundproof rooms. As for Scaife, he spent some of his Mellon family megabucks (Alcoa, Mellon Bank) to buy a suburban newspaper, give it a Steel City moniker and publish...