Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blizzard of 1996 was at its peak on January 13. There were 36 inches of wet packing snow on the ground, four-foot-long icicles dangling from the eaves and a brigh? orange glow at night from the reflection of street lamps on the snow. Two Cabot House seniors with vision trudged into the middle of the Quad with buckets and pails, a few sketches and a penchant for frostbite...
While Clinton focused on the common ground, Bob Dole stressed the differences. Giving the official GOP response to the President's speech, Dole said that while the President spoke of change, "his deeds are a contradiction. The President claims to embrace the future while clinging to the policies of the past." Dole said the President is the chief obstacle to a balanced budget, and out of step with the public on welfare, education, Medicare and taxes. "For three years this administration has valued dependence on government over self-reliance. Federal power over community, federal planning over individual enterprise...
...picking them up, the small ones especially, and hefting them in your hand. Dense, resistant lumps of color, real things in the real world--a status reflected by one of Hodgkin's wittier titles, A Small Thing but My Own, 1983-85. Distantly, they are related to medieval gold-ground paintings; more recently, to Cubist collage objects--except that there is no collage, only paint...
Increasingly, Fallows argues, journalists falsely pride themselves for being detached, indeed condescending, about the political process. Instead of trying to help people find common ground on complex issues--abortion, welfare reform, Medicaid--the media play up conflicts and cross fires in a quest for entertaining, diverting drama. "By choosing to present public life as a contest among scheming political leaders, all of whom the public should view with suspicion, the press helps bring about that very result...
...Russian-built cargo plane crashed into the crowded Zomba Zikada open-air market in Zaire's capital, Kinshasa, killing at least 350 people and injuring nearly 500; most of the casualties were women and children. The calamity set a record for the greatest number of fatalities on the ground in an aviation accident...