Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brief campaign it proved unable to articulate these interests outside of a fairly narrow political agenda. While the leadership took pains to argue for inclusion, PUCC's platform emphasizing "social responsibility," "unionized contractors for University projects," and "permanent faculty members in ...ethnic studies, gay studies, and labor economics," rang hollow before a more moderate student body...
...prosecution is on stronger ground with its testimony from Allan Park, the limo driver who went to Simpson's residence to drive him to the airport. He reported that no one answered when he rang at 10:42 p.m., a time verified by a phone call he then made to his boss. During the call, he says, he saw a black person about six feet tall enter the house--after which O.J. answered the intercom to say he had been sleeping. That contradicts the defense contention that O.J. had been hitting golf balls in his yard around that time...
...diary (he relies altogether too much on other people's memoirs instead). As a result, Palimpsest has a kind of haphazard feel, with the present frequently intruding upon the past in a way that distracts from his narrative. (''The editor of the [New York Times] editorial page just rang up; he will come to lunch on Monday...
...read Henry's script and panted for the part. When Meg Ryan bowed out, Kidman rang up Van Sant and announced, "I am destined to play Suzanne." Recalls the director: "In a way, it's just something you would say. But I took it a different way, like she really was destined to play the role. When she showed up, she was very prepared and worked very hard on her own to develop the character...
...inch in toward the infield, until by the end Cal was taking ground balls hit by my third baseman, Doug DeCinces, while Billy was just a few paces behind him." One night, when DeCinces and the 12-year-old Cal were the last ones on the field, a gunshot rang out from behind the outfield fence, and a bullet hit the ground near Cal. DeCinces picked him up and carried him to the safety of the dugout...