Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate Judiciary Committee during the Bork hearings. But since February Joe Biden has been seen neither on TV nor in the Senate. Much of the time he has spent in Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He checked in on Feb. 12 so doctors could correct an aneurysm near his brain. He returned a month later with a blood clot. Last week Biden was back, again because of an aneurysm. In intensive care after surgery, he was said to be doing well. He is expected to return to duty in the near future...
...cheerleading squad say they believe that if they can reach a level of athleticism and expertise that previous squads have been unable to achieve, then the department might support them. But department officials say they doubt the cheerleaders' level of support will change any time in the near future...
...know from a sentence or two. One fellow is sombre because his roommates for some reason surround him on excursions to dinner like agents of the Secret Service. A woman new to the house is beautiful but, in various senses, supposedly inaccessible. A couple virtually makes love, drily, near the pinball machine. Should one decide that they are, in fact, in love, or are they just taking advantage of each other...
Negotiations at Nowa Huta had seemed near agreement at midweek, when factory managers broke off talks. Next day the managers and the leaders of the official union met in an apparent effort to divide the strikers. As tension mounted, authorities threatened to fire strikers and hinted that riot police might break up the protest. Several dozen Solidarity activists and sympathizers were detained, including Jacek Kuron, a senior Solidarity adviser. On Saturday, the government announced an accord with the trade union, but the strike continued...
...shooting of Martin Luther King, 19 days after Bobby plunged into the 1968 campaign, accelerated his transformation. The war, Kennedy's ostensible reason for getting into the race, gave way to a near desperate plea for an end to racial hatred and intractable poverty. In speeches scribbled on note pads in the days after King's death, Kennedy made some of his most eloquent appeals. "For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly," he declared. "The violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors...