Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...April, Hanselman and leading women council members faced off in a heated exchange, marking the first public airing of women's grievances about their treatment on the council. Before spring recess, a group of female members had secretly met to discuss what council member Hillary K. Anger '93 called the "horrible gender dynamics" between men and women on the council...
...always read books," Allen says, earlier referring to herself as "the kid who always read through recess." "But I never paid much attention to the textual aspects. [During the seminar] I started looking at books in an analytic...
...whupped him, he would think harder the next time," Bobby's father David told a social worker. Bobby's sister Martha, two years his junior, helped him through first grade after he flunked it twice. "He just wasn't very bright," she says. "If the teacher said, 'Recess is over; sit down,' I'd have to go over, take his hand and tell him to sit down." She adds, "We were very close." As a teenager, he loved to dance "fast and slow," says Martha. "He'd laugh a lot, but -- I can't explain it -- then he'd stop...
...sure what might work. "Given the resources you're willing to devote to the problem," says Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, "I think you have to lower your expectations about what you can accomplish." Members of Congress returned to Washington after the Easter recess with no feeling that their constituents were clamoring for the use of armed force. National opinion polls show that only about a quarter to a third of Americans favor military intervention...
Late Friday, majority leader George Mitchell angrily postponed the Senate's Easter recess. But Republicans vowed to hold out until the Democrats give up more than half the proposed spending package, including $500 million for the popular Head Start program for children...