Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least 20 protestors then occupied the top floor of the school's clock tower and unrolled banners, one of which said "REVOLUTION," while a larger group of protestors gathered near the tower entrance and tried to block university police from entering the building, according to Associated Press wire dispatches...
...Women are not going into politics anywhere near the rate that they're going into other professions," Goodman said. "Their first response is, 'It's such an awful thing to do.' It strikes a lot of them as very hard...
...that," says lawyer L. Lin Wood. The explosion? "Richard doesn't have a clue what they are talking about, except that he burns trash, and it could have been an aerosol can," says Wood. He points out that a government memorandum states that investigators could find no metal fragments near where the explosion supposedly took place. The boast "I'm going to be famous"? The government memorandum says the colleagues who allegedly heard this comment are still being sought, and Wood is convinced that whoever mentioned it heard about it secondhand. Taking a break? Jewell was going to the bathroom...
...battle between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford is now seen as a model of civility, with two fundamentally decent men running fundamentally positive campaigns: Carter promising "a government as good...as the people," Ford coming from behind to near victory with a campaign featuring the jingle I'm Feeling Good About America. During that race, however, debate panelist Robert Maynard asked the candidates how much responsibility they were prepared to accept for the "low tone" of the campaign...
Carpenter dares to dream small, in songs about childhood, first love and the imminence of middle age. In Hero in Your Own Hometown, kids who "played house down in the bomb shelter,/ Suffered through the wonder years" are now grown up, warily eyeing that time in the near distance "When the road not taken disappears/ Into the path of least resistance...