Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remarkable thing [about the debate] is that there have been very few facts. It was largely based on anecdotes and impassioned rhetoric," said Bok, who co-authored the book with former Princeton University President William G. Bowen. "Our hope was to move the debate to a higher level...
...following the strike, and the average attendance now is far higher than it ever was, even in the romanticized '50s. Despite competition for American athletes, the talent pool is now far deeper than ever before. Players from the Caribbean, South America and Japan play in the majors, raising the level of play and expanding the sport's fan base...
...every comedy on TV ended last season with a dramatic plot twist, and Frasier was no exception: everyone was fired from the station. This fall's first episode shows Frasier as he tries to deal with the grief over losing his job, and while it is above the average level of TV comedy, it's still fairly routine. Frasier's smashing a pinata at the ex-employees' picnic is the kind of contrived moment you could just as easily have seen on Coach...
...usually ignore individual insider buying. A senior vice president picking up a few thousand shares of his drug company here and there means nothing to me. But when top-level officers across an entire industry make multimillion-dollar repeat purchases, I sit up and take notice...
WASHINGTON: After a flurry of high-level talks, Israeli and Palestinian leaders have reached agreement -- to go home and keep talking, and then to return to Washington in October and talk some more. The White House Monday was clearly hoping to revive the moribund peace process and give President Clinton a foreign policy achievement to crow about. But the only concrete step to come out of the initiative was that Madeleine Albright (to her thinly veiled irritation) will fly the Middle East with Dennis Ross on October 6 to nudge talks along before Arafat and Netanyahu return to Washington...