Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fame have been spent, the mystery may well remain unsolved. Before jury selection began last Monday, Judge Barbara Jones ruled that the question of Cosby's paternity was legally irrelevant and shot down a defense request that Cosby undergo a paternity test. The defense would also like to present the results of a polygraph test, taken and passed by Jackson on July 6, in which she answered yes to the questions, "Is Bill Cosby your father?" and "Is your father Bill Cosby?" But polygraph results are inadmissible in federal court...
Although almost half of Cambridge has been rezoned in the last 20 years, at the present rate it would take another 20 to 30 years to cover all the areas, Russell said...
BRATTAHLID, Greenland: Vikings: not just in Minnesota anymore. Travel writer W. Hodding Carter and 11 other hardy souls set off today on a 1,900 mile trip to retrace the voyage of Viking explorer Leif Ericsson from Greenland to present-day Newfoundland. Squeezed into a 54-foot wooden boat (called a "knarr"), expedition members will chart their course by the stars and sun and dine on the succulent Viking staples of freshly caught fish and moss and lichens to be gathered at beaches along the way. In true Viking style, crew members will rely on just six oars...
...democracies be forced to spend more money for tanks and fighters when they should be improving their roads and water supplies? Most of all, they want to know how much it will cost to bring former Warsaw Pact armies up to NATO standards and whether the European members, present and future, can be counted on to pay their share. "What are we getting ourselves into in terms of costs?" asks Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin...
...prove his folksy virtue by being semi-inarticulate, mouthing things like "Heck, b'gosh, b'gum, yuck, yuck." That is why Jimmy Stewart's hesitating-gulpy delivery was reassuring. His appeal went so deep because it touched America's belief in its own simplicity. When Mark Twain wanted to present himself as a traveling American, he called his tourist book The Innocents Abroad...