Word: ran
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Bachrach, also considered a front-runner upuntil the end, used his concession speech toreaffirm support for the liberal values he ran...
...best choice to serve the district with a vigorous voice in Congress is George Bachrach, a former state senator from Watertown and a long-time advocate of improved education and home health care funding for seniors. Bachrach ran for the seat in 1986 and came in a very close second to Kennedy. In the intervening years, he has headed both the Massachusetts President of Americans for Democratic Action and the state Office for Children. Most recently he has worked as the head of a company which raises money for non-profit organizations...
...politician, wasted billions propping up ailing finance companies owned by political cronies. When the currency crumbled under the pressure, he chose to throw good money after bad in a futile attempt to avoid a humiliating devaluation. Malaysia's cantankerous, 72-year-old Premier Mahathir Mohamad, strongman for 17 years, ran a one-man show with total control over the country's economic machinery. In his obsessive search for respect from the West, he spent lavishly to build the biggest and the tallest--the world's tallest skyscraper, the highest flagpole, the tallest control tower--wasting the foreign investment that streamed...
...global movie idiom and inspired a generation of Western directors; in Tokyo. Rashomon (1950), the tale of a murder seen four ways, first brought him fame outside Japan, its title now a byword for the fragility of truth. Even as his samurai epics like Throne of Blood (1957) and Ran (1985) borrowed from the West, particularly Shakespeare, movies outside Japan borrowed from him: The Seven Samurai is at the heart of The Magnificent Seven; The Hidden Fortress is concealed in Star Wars...
...same way forever," says special-programs teacher Lisa Salas, who went through school on the "standard" track and says she struggled unprepared through college. Her father Robert, a retired investigator for the local district attorney's office, was so angry about his own low-ball education that he ran for and won a seat on the school board. During the campaign, he found that most townspeople agreed that Santa Paula's schools provided a quality education for its few high achievers but substandard schooling for the majority of students...