Word: paredes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even as the conferees pared down the budget to better satisfy key Senators, liberal House members claimed that the compromise was cutting too deep into spending for social-welfare programs. The marketing marathon, meanwhile, was already showing signs of diminishing returns: an invitation to 40 moderate Democrats on Tuesday generated...
The wisdom about Clinton is that he doesn't make the same mistake twice, but he can make the same mistake for a long time. Even in a week when the President was trying to focus, he introduced an $8 billion city-renewal plan, legislation for campaign-finance reform, a...
With an instinct for contrast, Los Angeles voters pared a passel of 24 politicians vying to replace Mayor Tom Bradley and picked two polar opposites for the June 8 runoff. Venture capitalist Anglo Richard Riordan, 62, calls himself "tough enough to turn L.A. around." Liberal Asian-American city councilman Michael...
Johnson has two collections of poetry and the language in Jesus' Son often has the feel of sudden poetry to it. His straight, pared down description occasionally swells, mid-sentence, to an intense and concentrated tone. Within the same sentence, he lowers the pitch again. The effect is stunning; life...
Lee will teach a seminar in the English department on screen writing. Enrollment, a limited to 15, will be based on a writing sample. In the Afro-American Studies department, Lee will lead another course on contemporary African-American cinema. This year's enrollment will be pared to 25; as...