Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Caribbean cruise ship, its controls fritzed by a mad computer genius (there's no other kind in the movies these days) and set on a collision course first with a loaded oil tanker, then with a resort island? No, this is not a scenario that haunts our sleepless nights...
...absolute last resort was going to the gym, but I found, surprisingly, that working out at the MAC takes away all subsequent desire to avoid work...
...fund-raising scandal; others are skittish about the scrutiny any large gift will now receive. Democratic co-chairman Steven Grossman contends that contributors are responding to his pitch about investing in the party's grass roots and that the debt "is absolutely manageable," but for now the D.N.C. must resort to the tricks of the overextended. Payments to vendors are late; some donors to last week's gala were asked to send their checks overnight to help the party make its payroll...
...Force, Navy, Army, Georgia Tech, Washington State, Virginia Tech, Kansas, Utah and Washington) meet the first criterion, so the two more subjective standards are most often applied. Because the OCR has never actually enforced Title IX by denying federal funds to noncomplying schools, wronged parties have had to resort to legal challenges. In recent years such high-profile schools as Colgate, Auburn, Texas and Colorado State have had to deal with sports-bias lawsuits...
...while police were buoyed by the surrender, McLaren's increasingly angry neighbors, who voluntarily evacuated the area, won't be satisfied until they are allowed back into their homes, reports Austin bureau chief Sam Gwynne. Federal authorities have blockaded the one dirt road leading to the Davis Mountains Resort, leaving as many as 120 residents locked out. Some 25 others decided to stay when police asked them to evacuate, but are now stuck inside with no telephone access, since the lines apparently were cut. All of McLaren?s neighbors had better get used to it. While negotiations are proceeding...