Word: length
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pretty. Jones' lawyers believe that Bennett has waged a nasty p.r. war against them and that it's time for payback. They will probably quote at length from Clinton's deposition, in which he is said to have finally admitted having sex (just once) with Gennifer Flowers. On the merits, Jones is alleging two kinds of sexual harassment. First, she says the President's proposition "impose[d] a hostile work environment" on her. The idea behind such a claim is that sexual advances and physical touching--if unwanted and "severe or pervasive" enough--are discriminatory. Given these general terms, just...
...could be easily distinguished. Even the oddly-timed cymbal crash did not break the audience's reverie. The first movement was the only exception, it was very vibrant, as it told the story of the ushering in of spring. The first movement was also universally unusual because of its length, over 30 minutes, making it a full third of the length of the entire symphony...
After the length of time she spent in asingle-sex school, Chesney is still learning howto manage her daily interactions with men. What'smost important, it seems, is maintaining a senseof perspective...
...before it was many hours old. After the merrymakers had retired and the last firecrackers had sputtered out on the ground, they struck with a fierceness and bloody destructiveness that Viet Nam has not seen even in three decades of nearly continuous warfare. Up and down the narrow length of South Viet Nam, more than 36,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers joined in a widespread, general offensive against airfields and military bases, population centers and just plain civilians. No target was too big or too impossible, including Saigon itself and General William Westmoreland's MACV headquarters...
...reason for its length is that every child takes the first name of all his male ancestors. Often following the first name is a descriptive word or two, telling about the character of the person, making a true African name somewhat like a story. MIRIAM MAKEBA New York City...