Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Records showed that in the past five years, the MSP provided the pilot with only one training session that consisted of a two-day ground school and one formal training flight," the NTSB report stated...
...Lowell House is actually floating in the ground water of the Charles River...
...living rooms across America, and every trace of honest disagreement, every hint of personal eccentricity has long since been banished from the halls. We throw floodlights into the press rooms after debates, and the comments are so meaningless that if one of the candidates pummeled a nun to the ground and stole her purse, we would hear him described as a firm advocate of the separation of church and state...
...Second, by rejecting class-based politics, he accepted the notion that the way to appeal to the American people was by seeking common ground among disparate groups...
...these three values achieved a number of important strategic goals. It allowed the President to avoid divisive politics that pit group against group and interest against interest. It provided a clear opportunity for him to make a direct appeal to the common ground, which poll after poll shows voters prefer to the partisan divisions that many believe have infected our political system. Specifically, independents and moderate Republicans often preferred this values-based appeal to the more strident rhetoric adopted by Newt Gingrich and his colleagues during the 1995 budget showdown. Our polling also demonstrated conclusively that while voters preferred...