Word: pillars
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Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield, a moderate pillar of the Senate for 30 years, announced he will retire next year, the 11th Senator to do so. Reports circulated at week's end that Wyoming Republican Alan Simpson, one of the Senate's crustier members, may soon become the 12th. In the House, Colorado Democrat Pat Schroeder, the most senior woman in the chamber and one of its most influential feminists, said she would also step down, as did Kansas Republican Jan Meyers, the only woman to chair a full House committee. For his part, Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that he would...
...world of tomorrow will be multipolar. One of the essential poles will be Europe. I think that the first objective of my term in office will be to work for the success of Europe. The second will be NATO modernization and the creation of a European defense pillar within the alliance. The third objective is to develop solidarity between Europe and two zones that are linked to it: the Mediterranean and Africa. The fourth objective is to confront certain important problems, such as aid to developing countries, unemployment, monetary stability, drugs and terrorism, and to try to provide solutions...
Perhaps you've seen the new television commercials touting the fact that James Bond, in the new movie "Golden Eye," drives a BMW. Yes, that such a pillar of British sensibilities drives a German car is meant to strike us as positively revolutionary...
...then there's the post that cracked. At the end of the "street," which is bordered by the open seating area and private booths, stands a reinforced pillar...
...fair trial, and one has to assume that is what he received. But it makes me sick to see how quickly ''not guilty of murder'' is translated into ''innocent.'' A man who threatens to kill his wife is very likely to do just that. He is neither a pillar of the community nor the victim of a witch-hunt. He is without a doubt a criminally abusive man, and that fact must not be ignored. MOLLY MINER, Evanston, Illinois Via E-mail...