Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton worked on finishing touches late last week, another crisis loomed. His proposal to provide $40 billion in loan guarantees to the Mexican government ran into an unexpectedly hostile reception on Capitol Hill. His Democratic allies in the House, still smarting from their failure to stop nafta in 1993, pressed the President for concessions from Mexico City on more favorable labor practices and environmental regulations. House Republicans, though philosophically supportive of the Clinton plan, balked at providing the rest of the votes unless Clinton took a firmer public stand against the demands of the liberal Democrats. Clinton was forced...
...accident. Probably pushed from the plane by her mother after it struck the ground and split apart, she landed in a bed of algae and water lilies. Then, according to Erika, someone approached, ignored her cries for help but ripped a gold necklace from her neck and ran away. Witnesses say scavengers also looted the bodies of other passengers. Erika has issued a plea for the return of the necklace, which she says is the only memento of her father. Said one resident, Georgina Santamaria: ``God saved the girl, and he will punish the people who robbed...
Grant, a pro-choice conservative who can be gracious to guests and rapacious to callers, got a dose of his own malice last fall. Frank Lautenberg, the New Jersey Democratic Senator who was in a bitter race with Republican and frequent Grant guest Chuck Haytaian, ran ads stating that "Grant calls blacks savages, and called Martin Luther King a scumbag." A tri-state ruckus ensued, with New Jersey Republican Governor Christine Whitman declaring she would no longer appear on Grant's show and citizens calling for the host's scalp and other body parts. But all the heat didn...
This piece first ran on June...
...Carswell '50 went farther, Inspired by the most noble spirit of giving, he tried to outline a few ways to make this times easier for all of us. His advice piece, "Beating the System," won the Dans Reed Prize in 1951 for excellence in undergraduate writing. The Crimson proudly ran this piece at the beginning of every exams period since 1962, when one grader felt obliged to respond...