Word: importantally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"I'd much rather be out escorting," says Bell. "But even if no one calls, I think our presence is important. If people want to walk home, we're there for them."
"I really can't give any other reason for why SafeStreets volunteers decide to put themselves through this once every two weeks except that they care," says VanDyke. "We're not a high-pressure, structured group, there are no mandatory meetings or things like that. Volunteers come and sign up...
In Washington the feeling is much the same. Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan told oil-industry representatives last week that they had suddenly acquired a serious image problem, and EPA chief Reilly asserted that "we will not move forward if we have any significant concerns that have not been resolved." Anti...
At the same time he was curtailing exorbitant demands on his country's exchequer, Gorbachev was trying to establish peaceful conditions around the country's borders. Simply enforcing totalitarianism on restive East bloc neighbors was no longer a satisfactory solution; their own vast economic and political troubles were becoming an...
Aesthetics often dictates against hyphenation. Says a Washington lawyer representing small businesses who was born Joel Rothstein and is married to a woman named Wolfson: "Rothstein-Wolfson is four syllables and 16 letters. Names get massacred enough. Wolfson becomes Wilson. Rothstein becomes Rothson. You can imagine what people would have...