Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effectiveness of his campaigning is that he's a real fighter when he's on the campaign trail," said Stephen McGrail, a Middlesex Country lawyer who ran against Harshbarger for the district attorney's office in 1986 and plans to support Kennedy...
This past weekend was a pretty good one for Tigers. On Saturday, as young Mr. Woods was running away with the Masters, the Harvard men's lacrosse team traveled south to take on the Princeton Tigers, and ran into a buzzsaw in the form of the number 1 team in the nation...
Perhaps the last recruits, Yvonne McCurdy-Hill and her husband Steven, ran into the cult while online. But only after they had passed a face-to-face interview did Do ask the Cincinnati, Ohio, couple to "put their affairs in order." Says Steven Hill's mother Eartha: "They were told to get rid of all their debts, even parking tickets. Do didn't want anybody coming after them for something like that." Hill left the cult by November. Says his mother: "He just didn't buy into the grandiosity of the thing, but that's exactly what got his wife...
During the past few months, he has dealt with three marriages that were detonated by electronic affairs. In each, he says, "the woman ran away with a fellow she met and knew only online." One husband returned home to find his wife, children and computer gone. She'd been spending 16 hours a day in online chat groups, where she fell in love with a man halfway across the country...
Patients First, a coalition of four health-care unions based in Newark, New Jersey, is trying a different tack. In February it ran arresting ads on drive-time radio that opened with the beeping of a heart monitor ("This used to be the sound that mattered in determining your health care") and was followed by the ringing of a cash register ("Today this is the sound that matters"). The ads urged listeners to call a toll-free number "if you've been a victim of when profits come before patients." The coalition mainly wanted to recruit such victims to testify...