Word: planked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Frank hungry? He licks a newspaper for the residual grease of the chips it held. Is he sopping? He steps in more puddles than Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain. (Ten years the family rented the same flooded ground floor, and no one thought to lay a plank from the doorway to the stairs.) The three boys playing Frank at 7, 11 and 15 are fine. They create a collective portrait of a child tough enough to survive a horrendous youth and a man brave enough to recall...
Driskell says she is sticking to the community-building proposals that earned her and her presidential running mate, T. Christopher King '01, second place in last year's elections. The pair has also added a plank of council reform to their platform...
Bush's success in the field of education is a challenge to the Democratic candidates. While Gore has made education a center plank in his platform, he does not have the hands-on experience in turning around a failing educational system that Bush can claim. And even though Bush has inherited and adopted traditionally Democratic attitudes towards education, he has been willing to take even more radical steps for improvement. Bush's radical methods have also had detractors; unfortunately, both Democratic candidates have tiptoed around the issue of testing in order to improve performance...
...attack-dog mode. He's spending the week trawling California for stray Buchanan voters. His bait: With Buchanan out of the way, he is the most prominent conservative candidate left in the GOP primary. California is a particularly tough sell -- voters rejected a school vouchers program, a key Forbes plank, a few years ago, and his anti-abortion stance doesn't play well there. Still, with Buchanan nearly out of the picture, Forbes may be the best alternative for Republican protest voters, which means more attack speeches could...
First, Freddie's death was entirely our fault, whereas in my aunt's case, accountability for death was spread all over the meat-packing plant. There, one person herded the hogs into the hall; one person led them into the holding pen; one person pushed them up the plank; one person knocked them unconscious with a stun gun. Someone else pushed them onto the conveyor belt and yet another person operated the belt that processed the animals. "You know, I didn't really kill them," my aunt said...