Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old junior had been drinking at a campus party that night and left near midnight. Witnesses said he staggered along campus roads for about a mile...
...chilly Saturday night late last September, Adam G. Prentice, a bright young honors students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, fell through the roof of a greenhouse near the campus Morill Science Center...
...nasty and getting nastier. Cars have been stoned. Religious centers have been fire bombed. Excrement has been thrown. People on both sides have been assaulted on the street. A Prime Minister has been murdered. Says Menachem Friedman, a sociologist at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan: "We are really near the edge [of] where people can tolerate each other...
...finals draw near, Lamont's reading room becomes more crowded, and students seek out their own study niches in or around the University...
...Neither the three celebrities that have declared their intentions, nor former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten -- another potential candidate for mayor -- are anywhere near the top of early opinion polls. First in London?s heart is ?Red? Ken Livingstone, the extreme-left-wing ex-council leader whom Mrs. Thatcher ousted in the early '80s. Red Ken?s elevation to the new job would be an enormous embarrassment for Tony Blair, who has renounced the old-style socialism that his Labor colleague Livingstone still sticks up for. The election is set for late 1999 -- and if opinions stay the same...