Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People are giving up their Labor Day weekend and they're not getting paid [for their appearance]. They don't have an opportunity to interact students on a personal level [at other events]. It's fun for them," Hsu said...
...least, disaster scenarios like this remain only hypothetical. Perhaps that's one reason most people don't pay much attention. Homes still rise on the barrier islands off North Carolina. On Galveston's westernmost beaches, where the land is barely above sea level, luxurious new mansions stand atop stilts so tall the scene is almost comical. Just a few minutes up the road, however, there's a poignant monument to this sort of denial. Hard by bright blue signs marking Galveston's primary evacuation route, a small plaque commemorates the site where the hurricane of 1900 destroyed an orphanage...
...movement in both California and Nevada to pass something called "Sherrice's law" to require witnesses to intervene and report cases of sexual assault against children. If necessary, says Najee Ali, spokesman for Sherrice's mother Yolanda Manuel, advocates of the proposed law will go to the federal level to win passage...
...quarter-century ago, when Prefontaine held the American record in every distance from 2,000 to 10,000 m, when his bold front-running style and his self-dramatizing manner made him running's version of a rock star. And, yes, Towne conveys the exhilaration and exhaustion of high-level competition with unprecedented realism and intimacy...
...drunken rocker who sings about getting high and getting women all at the same time. Yes, he has songs like that, and I probably know all the lyrics to them, but happily you showed us the man who had these crazy experiences and then evolved to another level. Like many others, I have lived vicariously through Jimmy and his adventures, and now I am growing vicariously through him too. BRIAN COLLINS Columbus, Ohio...