Word: milles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good things to say about Pine Bluff. Rand-McNally named it the worst city in the nation in 1988. ABC News even showed up to film a 20/20 segment. Those who decide to venture into the city anyway should be prepared for the omnipresent stench of the paper mill, the city's only industry...
...effort to see whether the council would like him to run for a second-semester term, given his stated intention to step down in April. Rauch employed the Hare System of proportional voting, an extremely complicated, but reportedly effective, balloting system straight out of the pages of John Stuart Mill...
...MUSICAL. If you've been missing Evan Mecham, Arizona's malaprop Governor who alienated practically everybody until his impeachment in 1988, you can savor again those Archie Bunkeresque remarks about gays, "pickaninnies" and Martin Luther King Jr. in this musical satire by Tempe's Mill Avenue Theater...
From across the country come poignant stories of lifelong workers facing a hollow old age. Charles Thibodeau, 58, was laid off from the James River paper mill in Fitchburg, Mass., last spring -- just 3 1/2 years short of retirement. Although his children are grown, living on unemployment has required some belt tightening. "Not much you can do," he sighs. "Pay the bills. Taxes are going up, and we don't have much money coming in." It makes for a simpler life. "Once in a while we used to like to go out to a lounge and have a few dances...
...lower than the overall class average. The Crimson has labelled the consideration given to alumni children (or legacies) as "anachronistic" and the consideration of athletic accomplishments an "unconscionable compromise of Harvard's touted academic standards." At one point they suggested that children of alumni were admitted "...to quote J.S. Mill, `merely for having taken the trouble to be born...