Word: rans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SPAD: When I was doing Student Government one of the things that we always did was what we called Breakthroughs at football games. The football team would run through these sheets. It had these little cords that ran in front of it. One time these ropes had gotten crossed somehow. I was the one who was supposed to fix this. I was running back and forth in front of it and almost got killed by the football team. They had chosen the time that I was running in front of it to straighten out the cord...
...Roiff, who ran for vice president after losing in the presidential election, said he was optimistic about the coming year...
...With McCain and Bush running neck-and-neck in the Arizona polls, it was left to the other four candidates to divide the also-ran spoils - Steve Forbes, Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes by trumpeting their conservative credentials, and Orrin Hatch by emphasizing his experience. Clearly, though, some pollster has told all the Republican hopefuls that congeniality is the flavor of the month, and their affability was at times almost comical - Forbes told Bush to call him "Steve," McCain told the Texas governor to call him "John," then later complained of not knowing whether to call Bush "George...
...most arcane of academic disciplines has finally implanted itself firmly in popular culture. The trend began in 1994 when Princeton University's Andrew Wiles proved Fermat's Last Theorem, a cantankerous problem that had defeated the best mathematical minds for more than 350 years. Not since Archimedes ran naked from his bathtub shouting "Eureka!" has a mathematician received more publicity. PEOPLE magazine put him on its list of "the 25 most intriguing people of the year," the Gap asked him to model jeans, and Barbara Walters chased him for an interview. "Who's Barbara Walters?" asked the bookish Wiles...
...local hall, Morris held court in an easy chair surrounded by burly supporters, some of whom, he says proudly, he helped get out of jail. Morris, who makes more than $300,000 a year in salary and pensions, vows he will not quietly leave the union he built and ran for 54 years. He says he bought the weapons for use in strikes. But his critics--most of whom say they are afraid to be quoted by name--tell a different story. They say that Morris, who traces his roots and tactics back to the Molly Maguires, the fierce coal...