Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back on the T and came back. She was going to get tickets online, she said. Forget this sleep outside thing. I had to reassure her through several near-nervous breakdowns when she couldn't access the Web site. Finally she got through on the phone and bought tickets. Later, she told me she didn't feel she had "earned" the tickets. She hadn't worked hard enough. It was too easy. She didn't deserve to go on opening...
...traffic between Oxford Street's intersections with Kirkland Street on the east and Everett Street on the north. About a quarter-mile in length, the closed portion of the street is small in size but cuts off Oxford Street as a thoroughfare between Mass. Ave. and Beacon Street near Somerville...
Early this morning, a 53-foot tractor-trailer was slowly rolling its way down America's highways, near its halfway point in a cross-country odyssey from Harvard's Peabody Museum to New Mexico burial grounds...
Pryor also mentioned problems of women being stolen from the camps, presumably to be sold into sexual slavery, and supplies being stolen for the black market. He described one instance where trucks parked near a camp and full of provisions for the refugees disappeared overnight...
...this is a group of islands inhabited by an absolute diversity of linguistic, religious and ethnic groups bound together only by the fact that they were colonized by the Dutch," says Dowell. "The army is the only really national institution holding the whole place together." Despite its built-in near-majority, if the army's party is trounced at the polls it may be persuaded to share power, on its own terms, with the opposition. That's if the election goes ahead: Analysts fear that the campaign could ignite the violent social unrest that has bubbled under the surface since...