Word: odorants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current leaders are checking their odor with members by phone; would-be replacements are testing the waters for a challenge. But the key issue in the upcoming leadership elections -- due November 18 -- is not whether Newt can garner a majority among Republicans, but whether he could win all the Republican votes when the speakership comes to a floor vote in January. The last time, around six Republicans deserted Gingrich. If there are more than six GOP turncoats this time round, the Speaker will have to step down. Right now, however, it is unclear whether Livingston or anyone else will have...
...months later, "Zhu-phoria" has disappeared and there is an unmistakable odor of scorched feathers in Beijing: Zhu has hit his ceiling. With the negative G-force of some 200 million unemployed pulling at him, a sharp decline in exports and foreign investment, a change-resistant culture of corruption, and an unfriendly economic environment in the rest of Asia, Zhu has been forced to reverse or put on hold all his key reform policies. Mounting reports of labor unrest around the country terrified his comrades in the leadership, whose fear of luan--chaos--approaches the phobic. "With no functioning social...
Most notably, on Sept. 18, hours before Nelson Mandela was to receive an honorary law degree in Tercentenary Theatre, a faint odor was detected by passers-by near Memorial Hall...
Harvard Environmental Health and Safety Department officials were called in to investigate the odor...
Mark Maccio of 448 Eastern Ave, Chelsea, was arrested on Sept. 20 at 10:30 a.m. after officers observed a strong odor of marijuana coming from the bench they were sitting at. When the officers returned, the defendant and his companion had fled, and when they were found and a stop was made and they were arrested. Maccio had a tin with heroin and a hypodermic syringe inside...