Word: m
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reform the nation's campaign-finance laws and to curtail teenage smoking, both of which infuriated party leaders and rankled many of McCain's colleagues. And the Senator's long battle against pork-barrel spending has earned him few friends on Capitol Hill. "I don't believe I'm going to win Miss Congeniality," the Senator told TIME recently. "But I also don't think this campaign is going to be decided by the endorsements of Congressmen, Senators and Governors...
...Belgrade residents live with the prospect of years of dreariness and anxiety. "Of course I'm worried," says Mirjana. "I'm worried that I will lose my job, that my husband will be drafted by the army and that my children will have no future in a devastated country." The psychological scars of war--and of the propaganda--are most pronounced on the next generation of Serbs. Mirjana's two children, a son, 11, and a daughter, 7, have developed chillingly precocious antipathies. Her son spends most of his time watching state television or playing war with his friends; hide...
...breathe," he murmured. "I've got to go." But they kept talking to him, pulled his wallet out of his pocket and held up the pictures of his daughters. Tell us about them, they said. "He was breathing and awake the whole time," says Jody Clouse. "I'm sure the pain was great." They made a sign with the dry-erase board and held it up in the window for the rescuers to see: HELP, BLEEDING TO DEATH. As the students prayed, Sanders every now and then managed to cough and spit out some blood to clear his lungs...
...writing notes to their parents, saying that they loved them, that they thought they were going to die. Everyone was praying. "In a world where there are so many religions," says Lexis, "everyone was praying the same way." One friend made a vow. "If I ever get out, I'm going to be nice to my little brother...
...m so very happy," said Cathy Scott, mother of two, "and so very sad. My kids aren't going back to school anytime soon...