Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...merger looks "eminently thinkable." That hardly heartened US West and Bell Atlantic--which last year gobbled up neighboring NYNEX--which demanded access to long-distance markets should the deal go through. So far, Washington has barred the Bells from offering long-distance service to their own local customers on ground that they have not yet opened their "loops" to such rivals as AT&T. But to stick to that stricture after an AT&T-TCI marriage would be "like protecting the wolves from the sheep, and it's just absolutely wrong," says Jerry Brown, a spokesman for US West...
...would clearly tip the scales: they're by far birds' most characteristic feature, and they had to evolve from somewhere. The skeptics have always contended that birds' ancestors were tree-dwelling lizards, and that feathers evolved to help the lizards flap their way from branch to branch. Fast-running, ground-dwelling dinos like velociraptors would never have needed feathers...
...meditation on the ties between man and beast. The central conceit of the picture is a love affair, not as platonic or intellectual as you might think, that springs up between a soldier and a leopard. Yes, that is what I said, and it's a lot of ground for one picture to cover conventions of visual storytelling cannot easily accommodate such philosophical ambitions. It's hard enough to stage this cross-species romance, much less unpack what it could possibly mean...
Lukas won a second Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his book, Common Ground, which examined the effects of busing intended to end de facto school segregation. The book chronicles the policy's effect on three Boston families...
...Common Ground represents Lukas' journalistic legacy, said Brent A. Staples, a member of the prize committee and member of the Editorial Board at The New York Times...