Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latter three-day conference held in Baltimore is expected to draw 30 of the 73 newly elected members of Congress, said J. David Kuo, a staff member of Empower America--thus noticeably cutting into the number that the Kennedy School can hope to draw...
HOLLIS Plus is of the latter variety. Our old reliable electronic card catalog has been beefed up over the past few months. Notably, the improvements have occurred not by adding more local functionality but rather by addition of gateways to outside databases. In short, HOLLIS is metamorphosing from a card catalog to a comprehensive electronic research tool...
...easy to be skeptical of someone who privately admitted to lobbyists that part of his campaign strategy was to portray Clinton Democrats as proponents of Stalinist measures. Yet Gingrich claims that he really wants nothing more than to work with the President--as long as the latter is willing to work with him to cut welfare, property taxes, and institute school prayer. And if the President doesn't? "I prefer to believe," Gingrich darkly informed The New York Times, "(that) this President, who is clearly quite smart, is quite capable of thinking clearly about a message sent by the American...
...made to an artist" was to be called a history painter -- but he wanted to paint history too, though of a more recent sort: the killing of the Mexican Emperor Maximilian; and the battle between two Civil War ships, the Alabama and the Kearsarge, in French waters. The latter came out as a sort of imaginary journalism, rapidly painted to catch the urgency of a moment that, in fact, the painter hadn't seen. And though Manet was not notable for his piety in real life, he tried to reinvigorate biblical painting with his great image of The Dead Christ...
...seven years at our corporate-cousin publication PEOPLE, where she built her reputation by deftly managing first the magazine's book and theater departments, then its news sections. She edited dozens of PEOPLE cover stories, including those on the Polly Klaas kidnapping and the Baby Jessica DeBoer case. The latter was particularly meaningful to Aitken, a single parent who adopted her daughter Sophie, 3, in Bulgaria after a two-year search for a child. "Lee has an amazing way of expanding the dimensions of a story, making it grow beyond the confines of its narrative," says senior editor Howard Chua...