Word: hards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first quarter with the Raiders on the Crimson's 32-yard line and opting to go for it on fourth-and-5. Vena completed a pass over the middle to Dave Beitler, just short of the first down marker--and that's where the ball stayed. A hard tackle by senior linebackers Jeff Svicarovich and Aron Natale prevented Beitler from falling over...
...himself. Folded into a chair on the stage in the packed and jubilant Crystal City High School gym, the scene of his earliest hoop glory, he's listening to old friends extol his essential goodness, but he's looking bored and distracted one minute, uncomfortable the next: it's hard for him to cede control of his own story. A black Little League teammate reminisces about the 11-year-old Bradley threatening to call the mayor of Joplin, Mo., if a local hotel didn't rent the black kid a room, and the 56-year-old Bradley chews...
...rolled their reform together with many of those projects in a single piece of omnibus legislation, so that for other lawmakers, the price of getting water pork was a vote in favor of reform. For Bradley, the price was agreeing to pork projects he loathed. "You bet he swallowed hard," says Thomas Jensen, then a top subcommittee staff member. "Given his druthers, he never would have supported them. But he knew what other Senators know--logrolling works...
...look at the exhibition's catalog. It can't convey all the nuances Ofili intends with excrement, though Giuliani might be mollified if he knew that the artist affixes clumps of dung to just about everything, including Absolut vodka bottles and images of James Brown. It can be hard to take this sort of art seriously--it seems designed only to shock, after all--but it is easy to demonize. For his part, Ofili wasn't talking; his London gallery issued a statement saying that as a Roman Catholic, he wanted to celebrate, not desecrate, the Virgin Mary...
Just which buildings survived was partly determined by which ones conformed to Taiwan's sometimes laxly enforced construction codes. Puli was especially hard hit because many of its buildings are made of mud and straw. The Sungshan complex might have survived except that earlier this year, a bank on its first two floors reportedly stripped steel beams of concrete reinforcement during renovations...