Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although this was the first year that either Harvard or Boston University, where the bowling and gymnastic events took place, served as the site of the competition for disabled athletes, the competition ran smoothly...
...Bozzotto strongly disputed that assertion yesterday. He pointed to his March re-election to the union presidency, when he ran unopposed, as evidence of his strong support among union members. Bozzotto also said the cost of arbitration, which can run more than $6,000, was a factor in his decision-making...
...Pretty Woman and Under Siege, both rated R, both worldwide hits. He recently did a PG-13 rewrite of Damon Wayans' spoof Blankman. "There was a scene where some gangsters come in and shoot people," he says. "We changed it so they shot at the ceiling and the people ran out of the room." Now Lawton is wrangling over his script for The Adventures of Fartman, starring Howard Stern, America's top radio ranter. "We didn't hold back," Lawton says. "There's a lot of nudity, some harsh language, a lesbian love scene, and the main character works...
...Culture and Imperialism includes brilliant readings of Conrad, Kipling, Camus, Yeats and other writers. It has been extolled by such critics as Camille Paglia and Henry Louis Gates Jr., and roundly damned by others, especially English ones, who fixated on Said's suggestion that an awareness of Caribbean slavery ran under the ironic tranquillity of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. In England you can dump on God, Churchill or Prince Charles, but touch Jane Austen and you're toast...
...young Marxists are advocating economic change before political change -- the path the Chinese insist they are taking, in contrast to the approach favored by Mikhail Gorbachev when he ran the Soviet Union. "Communist parties around the world have faced our same dilemma, the sequence of reform," says Monreal. "In Cuba's case, the choice was to promote economic reform first. That will transform the state." The yummies admit that major alterations in the political system are unlikely anytime soon. "How can you open up political reform while the economy is a mess? It's suicidal," argues political scientist Santiago Perez...