Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flailing their arms, many hoping their more technically inclined children will figure out what to do. For an especially good view, I recommend a position close to any station's sole pass machine. Adjacent to the fare card machines, but so much more confusing, even locals refuse to go near them. Of course, the tourists never notice this...
...surprisingly, my first attempt was a relative failure: The arm that I lifted with so much promise would drop quickly back to my side, the victim of what appeared to be an occupied taxi coming near. As the cab whizzed by, I saw that it was indeed empty, my lack of confidence punishable with a fine of a few minutes standing unnecessarily in the smothering D.C. heat...
...surprisingly, my first attempt was a relative failure: The arm that I lifted with so much promise would drop quickly back to my side, the victim of what appeared to be an occupied taxi coming near. As the cab whizzed by, I saw that it was indeed empty, my lack of confidence punishable with a fine of a few minutes standing unnecessarily in the smothering D.C. heat...
...Smith called. He didn't like what we wrote." The other will say, "Did you read what the EPA said yesterday... Once they acknowledge that, they're screwed." I have no idea what they're talking about, but everything has the tone of frontline bulletins. Standing beside Kennedy near the bow, I realize he looks like a Kennedy. He has made me forget his lineage until, as part of something else he is saying, he adds, "when my uncle was in the White House...
...treatment center. At Providence College, "he wanted to get away from Washington," says former roommate Jim Vallee, who remembers that their early years were not "terribly political." But by his junior year, Patrick had found his focus, in part because of life-threatening surgery to remove a tumor near his spine. In 1988 he ran for the Rhode Island state legislature and, after spending more than $80,000, became at 21 the youngest Kennedy ever elected to office...