Word: often
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strict demands are often difficult to meet when operating with tight spaces, tight budgets, and, in the case of America's oldest university, 363 years of architectural history...
...characterized both the explosion of TWA Flight 800 and the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City as works of extremist Muslims, charges that were both later proved false. As someone often regarded as a expert on terrorism, he is listened to and believed readily when he makes these comments, and thus has a responsibility to weigh evidence and choose his words more carefully. Otherwise, he propagates stereotypes...
...were understandably protective of their adolescent charges, but as it turned out, so were we. Atlanta correspondent Tim Roche, a veteran of school-violence stories in Conyers, Ga., and Pearl, Miss., was once again struck by how unguarded kids can be. Like the rest of us, he found himself "often protecting them from themselves" as he sifted through his notes...
Police officers often respond to 911 calls with loaded weapons. Two of Miami's finest got in trouble last week when they responded with loaded cameras. And who could blame them? They were, after all, following up on a call made by that legendary friend of law enforcement O.J. SIMPSON. Simpson had called police from girlfriend Christie Prody's Miami home seeking help for a friend he said had been on a two-day cocaine binge. When police arrived, they found Simpson alone and, according to their report, learned that he and Prody had been involved in a "verbal dispute...
...ought to be remembered that, as indisputably great a player as Wilt Chamberlain was, he often evoked a public awe closer to loathing than admiration. "No one roots for Goliath," he lamented to his Los Angeles Lakers teammate Jerry West. The observation was both personally felt and generally interesting in what it says about the way people look at giants. Size (which matters) is an accident of biology, but we tend to treat it as an implicit assault on the averageness of the rest of us--a potential menace, an insulting excess--and there is a universal desire...