Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opponent. Instead, his TV ads feature a photo of a scowling Newt Gingrich above a warning about the House Speaker's proposed cuts in Medicare and education. "Jerry Estruth for Congress," an announcer says. "Newt Gingrich hasn't heard of him...But he will." The ad makes no mention of Estruth's real foe, state senator Tom Campbell...
...turned a blind eye to the rabble rousing in exchange for information about far-right activities. At the Shamgar hearings, news accounts say, Shin Bet officials acknowledged that last August they asked Raviv to check out Amir. Raviv reported back that Amir talked about killing Arabs but made no mention of the Prime Minister as a possible target...
...world, in layers of rock just slightly younger than that Erwin discovered, scientists have found the mineralized remains of organisms that represent the emergence of nearly every major branch in the zoological tree. Among them: bristle worms and roundworms, lamp shells and mollusks, sea cucumbers and jellyfish, not to mention an endless parade of arthropods, those spindly legged, hard-shelled ancient cousins of crabs and lobsters, spiders and flies. There are even occasional glimpses - in rock laid down not long after Erwin's Namibian sandstone - of small, ribbony swimmers with a rodlike spine that are unprepossessing progenitors of the chordate...
There is something morally repulsive about the talks, but it's not anything Bennett or his co-crusader Senator Joseph Lieberman has seen fit to mention. Watch for a few hours, and you get the claustrophobic sense of lives that have never seen the light of some external judgment, of people who have never before been listened to, and certainly never been taken seriously if they were. "What kind of people would let themselves be humiliated like this?" is often asked, sniffily, by the shows' detractors. And the answer, for the most part, is people who are so needy...
...Mention it to freshman Matt Murray, and you'll probably get an earful about forwards, reverses and twisters...