Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyhow, as a doctor Kevorkian can only repeat himself now; but a celebrity has to keep moving. So--should he become a nice guy, or concentrate on staying out front? Maybe Don Rickles can advise him on this. But whatever he decides, Dr. Kevorkian won't really be out front anymore. That place was taken for 15 minutes just last week by a gang of anonymous nurses, one of five of whom confessed in a poll published by the New England Journal of Medicine to "hastening death" in intensive-care cases...
...mines, betting on his reluctance in a presidential election year to confront the U.S. military and limit its use of weapons. "Clinton does not have the standing to challenge the military," Thompson says. "He was wrecked on gays in the military in 1993, and he does not want a repeat of that now." Advocates of a worldwide ban on anti-personnel mines criticized the President for failing to take a stand to eliminate a weapon that kills more than 20,000 people, mostly civilian, every year, often long after a military confrontation has ended. Thousands of people continue...
...University, their words and ideas have been taken by many Americans as gospel. Likewise, Agassiz, Morton and a number of other 19th-century scholars connected to prestigious universities and foundations operating from racist perspectives saturated the public with pseudoscientific proof that African-Americans were inferior. The 1990s is a repeat of the 19th century, where academics define the parameters of discussion and defend the racist thinking of their colleagues...
There was also a near-repeat of the second inning as Forst once again batted Ralph in, this time with a double...
MOSCOW: Reports of Chechen leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev's death may be greatly exaggerated. In a repeat of the confusion that reigned last week, when reports that former Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev had or had not been slain, the Russian press is now issuing conflicting reports of the death of Dudayev's successor. The Russian news agency ITAR-Tass reported Monday that Yandarbiyev was dead, while the news agency Interfax insisted that it was Yardarbiyev's nephew who perished in an attack. There has as yet been no confirmation of Yandarbiyev's death. "One version of the story has Yandarbiyev killed...