Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victims or lowlifes: while some come from straitened circumstances, one is a Berkeley-educated attorney, others are students at a selective high school for the performing arts, and one is a former seminarian who does managerial tasks at his church. All were recruited in the isolated ghetto across the Potomac, the "east of river community...
...Washington school system, students speak 127 languages and dialects; across the Potomac, in Fairfax County, Virginia, that figure is more than...
...real people who write about real things," she says. "I'm hoping that by the end of my term people will think of a poet laureate as someone who's out there with her sleeves rolled up and working, not sitting in an ivory tower looking out at the Potomac...
...came and went as the President labored to produce a new budget, then struggled to win its approval. On June 30, while biking home, Thompson stopped on Memorial Bridge over the Potomac and proposed. The Tuscany trip would be a honeymoon. The two, each marrying for the first time, would leave for Italy Sept. 11, after their wedding in Georgetown. When Congress recessed Aug. 7, White House sources pushed the target back to mid-September. Tuscany was out, so the couple planned a honeymoon weekend in a Virginia 18th century countryside...
Politeness makes sense to the politicos. Neither this city nor its suburbs have any native industry--you won't find many meat-packing plants in Georgetown or in posh Falls Church, Va., Potomac, Md.--and the bird-to-victim ration is high...