Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would like to describe an event that returns to me in memory from the past. On a visit to the South many years ago, I found myself carrying it with me somewhere between the past and the present. I thought of it a great deal. It occurred in 1955 in Montgomery, Ala., at an allday meeting at Martin Luther King's church, the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Reverend King had just come to public notice. We had heard about him in Talladega County where I was attending college and, curious about him, decided to drive to Montgomery...
...longtime Cambridge resident present at the meeting expressed his frustration with the fact that juveniles have repeatedly broken into his cars which he keeps parked in the driveway of his home...
...spooked some instructors shortly after cadets started flying it in January 1995. At a meeting a week before the first crash, several grumbled that the T-3 lacked parachutes. "It's crazy that we don't fly with parachutes," said one of the instructors present, Captain Dan Fischer. "It's an FAA regulation if you do acrobatics." Air Force superiors said the service didn't have to obey Federal Aviation Administration rules even though the T-3, unlike most Air Force planes, is registered with the FAA. Back at his apartment, Fischer was blunter. "Someone's going to die before...
...William Strauss, co-author of "Generations, 13 GEN, The Fourth Turning," points out, the times are changing from the Generation Xers to the Millennium Generation. The Millennium Generation are those people born after 1982 and who present themselves as law-abiding and morally sound. The Gen Xers, born between 1961 and 1981, are without such character and are the drinkers and drug addicted students of today. Let's hope the Millenium Generation restores our faith in character, morals and respect for the law. -Richard V. Scali, License Commission Executive Officer
...personal, risk-taking style has once again paid off. In an unprecedented visit to jailed Protestant terrorists inside the top-security Maze prison, she convinced the Protestant paramilitary groups to remain committed to peace talks for Northern Ireland. That means negotiations will reopen as scheduled on Monday with representatives present from both the pro-British Protestants and Sinn Fein...