Word: moons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Social Security increases to the cost of living. He instituted "revenue sharing" to funnel $6 billion a year in federal tax money back to the states and cities. He signed the act lowering the voting age to 18. And he benefited from Kennedy's decision to go to the moon. When Neil Armstrong landed there in 1969, Nixon somewhat vaingloriously declared that "this is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation...
...Race. Deion Sanders thinks this a key reason--and I believe him. Despite the accomplishments of Doug Williams, Randall Cunningham and Warren Moon, a racist myth prevails: blacks aren't smart enough to be quarterbacks. They lack the "necessities," as Dodger executive Al Campaigns once put it, referring go black managers...
...pegged him for dramas, and he wound up in a variety of serious Eurofilms including Merchant-Ivory's Remains of the Day. "If they would only give me something lighter," he recalls saying to himself, "I'd be better." Finally, Grant's amusing performance in Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon brought him to the attention of Four Weddings director Mike Newell and led to his screen break in a real comedy...
NASA, which has talked about building spacestations and even a permanent base on the moon,has also expressed interest in what the experimentsays about the effects of extended periods ofweightlessness on astronauts...
...most violent. When a struggling team sells out a large fraction of its home games and still gets sold down the Mississippi River...call it the Rape of Minneapolis, Part II. The North Stars are already gone, and now this...two franchise departures does not a Warren Moon arrival equal...