Word: grounds
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Predictably, the race took an entirely different course for Carswell, who gained ground as he ran. After starting off relatively well, in the top 35 or 40, he ran in about 25th-place for most of the course. With a mile and a half remaining, he added an additional charge that set up his 17th-place finish...
...just trying to make my way up," Carswell said. "I was hoping for a top 15 finish. People were yelling out the placements as I went by. I knew I had to make some ground to finish in the top 15. Over the last mile and half or so, I tried to pick off as many as I could. I got a few guys, not enough for top 15, but I was pleased with...
...results may not be proof of a Democratic revival, but at the very least the party held its ground in last Tuesday's off-year elections, which many candidates had framed as an early referendum on the so-called Republican Revolution. The results...
...mother is the ground wire in my father's electrical circuit," says Michael Powell, the couple's 32-year-old son. "She helps him not get so electrified that he does something against his better judgment. She will not get caught up in the carnival. I can't tell you the number of times I've watched in near embarrassment as she chastises him"--for believing his p.r., for getting windy or phony during a speech, for allowing Larry King to stroke him like a cat. "She gets ticked off," says Michael. "She'll say, 'My, that man of mine...
More than 60 world leaders, including President Clinton and former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George Bush, gathered in Jerusalem as assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was laid to rest on Mount Herzl, burial ground of Israeli heroes. Grieving Israelis exhausted the country's supply of mourning candles and stood weeping as a two-minute siren sounded. p.l.o. Chairman Yasser Arafat, who did not attend the funeral, later made a quiet 90-minute visit to Tel Aviv to offer condolences to Rabin's widow Leah...