Word: renewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spring, his family had discovered that his mother had a malignant brain tumor (she died two years ago). Because he anticipated having to return often to California to see her and because he wanted to have summers free to stay at home, he decided not to renew his participation in ROTC. And, he says, "Regardless of the political issues involved, another reason was I didn't really want to commit to the military. It wasn't really what I wanted to be tied down to after college...
...talked to people who have come over from China recently, and they say the situation today isn't any better than a couple years ago. The government will crash anyone showing protest this year," Haiching said. "We need to ask the United States to renew MFN but attach conditions including the release of prisoners, the freedom of speech and assembly...and a stop to the harassment of students...
College administrators are carefully monitoring the situation, and any such drastic change will probably prompt an appeal to Congress to pass legislation permitting them to renew the overlap process...
...many Harvard players a trip back to Garden City, N.Y. is more than another game in a busy April schedule--it is a trip home, a time to meet old friends and, more importantly, renew old rivalries...
Aides to George Bush stunned Democrats and some Republicans last week by indicating that the President, in his annual budget request, would renew his long-standing campaign for lower capital-gains taxes. The strategy seemed a halfhearted attempt to appease conservatives who remain furious with Bush for agreeing to tax increases last year. Scoffed a Democratic aide to a congressional committee: "Maybe they'll ask for a capital-gains cut to pay for the gulf...