Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rhetoric is likely to escalate as November3 draws nearer and, although every presidentialelection is framed as historic, this year'scontest highlights issues of particular interestto many students...
...without indoor plumbing. Much has been made of Clinton's encounters with snakes in the outhouse, but he says, "We were not poor. A lot of rural Arkansas had no sewers back then." Billy was taken into town to attend a Catholic school, rather than the inferior county school nearer home. It was his first experience of Arkansas' dreary educational establishment...
Standing by their family was just as important as standing by each other. In 1970, they made a third international relocation--to the United States, where they could be nearer to their two children...
...nevertheless, a problem worth solving. If the leaders of Syria, Jordan and the Palestians actually speak with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir tonight, a minor miracle in itself, solutions may be nearer than they have been in a long time...
When Nelson Mandela gathers his followers next week for their first conference inside the country in 30 years, they should be able to review their achievements with pride. The African National Congress, established in 1912, is nearer than ever to its goal of replacing apartheid with democracy for all races. Last week the last legal pillar of segregation tumbled when the Parliament revoked the Population Registration Act of 1950, fulfilling President F.W. de Klerk's promise to abolish South Africa's major discrimination laws...