Word: months
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...About a month ago, on the eve of Harvard's dual meet with the Quakers, the Daily Pennsylvanian described the Crimson as "always-tough Harvard." After a season of historic success, the grapplers can be proud of the reputation they earned and look forward to giving Penn a lesson or two on toughness in the seasons ahead...
...talking to a reporter at a cafe in Fort Dodge, Iowa. So Radford interrupted him, and John Kasich, the 46-year-old Republican Congressman from Ohio, stopped quartering his French toast to listen to her. A widow with an eye infection, Radford, 73, told Kasich she was struggling every month to pay for her prescriptions. One cost $81 to fill, the other $57, and the prices kept going up. How could the government help? she asked...
...cutting taxes. More specifically, by using the postdeficit era's budget surpluses to slash federal income-tax rates 10% across the board--a total of $776 billion in tax cuts over 10 years. That's the essence of the Kasich plan, which the House budget chief introduced last month to the cheers of fellow Republicans trying to persuade Americans to forget all about the G.O.P.'s impeachment binge. Tax cuts, after all, are the sturdiest of Republican perennials--the glue that's supposed to hold the party together, and what Kasich calls "a moral issue. If you have more money...
...fact, there is hearteningly widespread dismay over a white boy suspended from school five times in the past month for wearing a buckle with a symbol of the Confederate battle flag. Says Herman Wright, who is black and a former head of the school board: "I have never seen anything like this outright display by a student with deep, deep convictions about race...
...youth, Billy Grantham worked on rigs in the East Texas oil patch. But ever since a car crash left him blind and disabled, Grantham, 52, has survived on a government payment of less than $1,000 a month. To cope with post-accident trauma, he has relied on a tranquilizer called lorazepam, sold under the brand name Ativan...