Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HUPD guard reported that he saw four people loitering near the Kennedy School of Government who he suspected of smoking crack. Officers responded and questioned two males and two female suspects, A small quantity of a class-d controlled substance, which officers reported was likely marijuana, was destroyed at the scene. The suspects were given a verbal trespass warning...
Rowling, a single mother who wrote part of the first Harry book while on the dole, feels she has slid right down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. The daughter of middle-class parents near Bristol, she began writing secretly when she was six, and after university took a series of jobs, mainly as a teacher. But she never considered writing for children until one day in 1990, when "Harry just strolled into my head fully formed." That same year, however, her life fell apart. Her mother died of multiple sclerosis at 45, and Rowling was both burglarized and fired from...
Wrong! By eschewing near-term profit, these outfits are building brands that could be worth many times their current prices. Yahoo, which this week announced its purchase of money-losing Broadcast.com right on top of acquiring money-losing Geocities, is managing for a world that doesn't even exist and may not for years, a world of thousands of intertwined communities in constant contact over the Internet...
...young Chinese man who faced down a long row of tanks near Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989, personifies man's struggle for freedom in a direct and personal way. This unknown rebel is a symbol of the world's desire for freedom. Margret Hofmann Austin, Texas...
...said in those negotiations, the parties at the table were used to exchanging bullets not handshakes. Mitchell said he went in "aware of the near-impossibility of the task...