Word: pose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gearing up for the portrait, she crouches down and wraps her arm around her dog. Them she quickly changes her mind, dismissing the pose as being too "cute...
...Filene's official, who requested anonymity, says the Coop is too inefficient and too small to pose any real threat to other department stores...
Last week Lujan again revealed his priorities. The so-called God Squad, a Cabinet-level committee of which he is chairman, announced its intention to exempt from the Endangered Species Act timber sales on various federal lands in Oregon -- despite warnings from biologists that the sales pose a threat to the northern spotted owl. It is only the second time in the act's 19-year history that an exemption has been granted. (The previous case involved the whooping crane and a Wyoming dam project...
...Voting Rights Act of 1965. That provision requires officials in the covered states to "preclear" changes they want to make "with respect to voting rights" with the U.S. Justice Department before putting them into effect. The department can overrule the changes if it finds that they pose a threat to minority voting strength. Presley contended he needed control over a portion of the road budget as a bargaining chip with other commissioners for such things as funding for improved health care for indigent people in his district. Says he: "If you want to push something in your district, that...
...organizers and protesters stressed theimportance of a silent march to pose as a starkcontrast to the violence and disorder elsewhere...