Word: miles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Police and federal investigators now say that the explosion Wednesday morning in front of a Washington, D.C. Planned Parenthood clinic a mile from the White House was not aimed at the center. According to police, the explosion occurred after a hotel worker picked up the fuse for a practice grenade from the street. Federal officials, already on top alert for a possible wave of violence on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, thought at first that the explosion must be connected to the adjacent clinic. Early reports said that the man carrying the device...
...does not reflect quality improvements adequately. If radial tires last three to five times longer than the bias-ply tires they replaced, their price could go up in dollars but drop per mile driven. But the CPI reflects this only partly...
...people who have the credentials to insult the Dalmatian for its own good are, of course, the very breeders who have spent their lives presenting it as the noblest of canines. It's as if the teenagers who have been standing in a two-mile ticket line for a Foo Fighters concert started buttonholing passing reporters to warn that grunge can lead to poor study habits and might even be a bridge addiction to the music of Lawrence Welk. In a typical radio interview I heard, one authority was going on about how demanding Dalmatians are, and how much hair...
...hear me coming from a mile away wearing my jingle bell necklace during these next few weeks, at least commend me for my effort. But if you see me still wearing my Christmas sweater in January, you can gently remind me that Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and I better get a head start. Sigh...
...problem with the one-mile part of the law for a place like Cambridge is that, in a mile radius from here, you could be in Somerville, Arlington or Boston," said Sgt. Joe McSweeney of the Cambridge Police Department. "It's very difficult to break it up like that because it becomes unclear which municipality has jurisdiction...