Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Experience here and elsewhere has shown that a library for men only or for women only can be administered with almost no supervision in the reading rooms, but that a coeducational library requires supervision if reasonable quiet is to be preserved," Metcalf wrote...
...called them points of light. So how did the approach that Democrats once ridiculed become part of their dogma? It probably happened with the passage in 1996 of welfare reform, a law that shifted government's mission from providing for people to changing them. Included in that law, with quiet support from the White House, was an amendment by Republican Senator John Ashcroft that let churches and religious groups bid on government contracts to provide job training and other services. Since then, Gore has highlighted many of those efforts in his travels as Vice President, touting the prayer and Bible...
...Sagaponack, an oceanside hamlet, would offer Mrs. Clinton a quiet escape before attending those fund-raising parties. The paparazzi would concentrate on other high-profile celebrities, so she could flee the commitments and stop at the Sagg Main Store for a chicken pot pie." --Peter Hallock, Allan M. Schneider Associates...
...friends with Jason, but he can be an a______," says Rosa. "He really picked on T.J. just because T.J. was so quiet," says another friend of Solomon's. "You know, like being quiet made him weird in the eyes of that little clique of theirs." Solomon took the teasing hard, and even though he had friends, he seemed to become convinced that he was destined to be the campus pariah--"and that idea kept building inside him until he picked up a gun," says Stacey Singleton...
...rest of the house doesn't want to fall asleep to the roar of the Jurassic Park sound track, Sony has come out with the wireless MDR-DS5000, the first headphones that reproduce Dolby surround sound--offering that "you are there" feeling when it's time to be quiet. If that's music to your ears, you might consider the price tag--$550--and opt instead for 75 trips to the multiplex...