Word: rans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next day, as I sat comfortably on the train, I realized that the warnings had been for naught. The train's route ran alongside the A30 highway, which had been opened especially to accommodate eclipse traffic. We waved to a happy woman in a silver BMW convertible who was speeding along the highway with no other cars in sight. There was a jubilant mood among the other passengers in our car. They downed wine and beer and talked excitedly of their plans to soak up some rays before the eclipse...
...beautiful children who the ads noted had not been aborted, they aired in states facing abortion-related referendums and went national by 1993 at a cost estimated at $20 million a year. The commercials thrilled the antiabortion camp. Says National Right to Life Committee president Wanda Franz: "They ran daily for years. It was the kind of campaign an organization like ours could never have begun to touch...
TRANSFERRED. AIR FORCE GENERAL JOSEPH RALSTON, 55, to NATO commander, from his current post as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In May, Ralston will replace Army General Wesley Clark, who ran NATO's war against Yugoslavia...
...assignment to find out whether a person who participates in a daunting adventure can actually learn valuable lessons that apply to work or whether an entire industry has sprung up around entertaining adults under false pretenses. To prepare, I ran up miles of hills carrying a 10-lb. volume of Shakespeare on my back and searched the Internet for information about adventure racing, a fast-growing sport in which small teams navigate over long, difficult courses by kayak or mountain bike, on foot and on horseback. I'm training with members of the Charles Schwab Adventure Racing Club, who believe...
Until a Colorado grand jury indicted them for racketeering, James and Regina Rapp ran a $1.5 million-a-year business dredging up and selling confidential data on celebrities. Bruce Willis, Calista Flockhart, John and Patsy Ramsey and even the Columbine victims were marks for the couple's Touch Tone Information Acquisition, based in suburban Denver...