Word: rev
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their prime minister will be selected by the leaders of the LDP's numerous factions, using their own private power-and-favor calculus. Meanwhile, voters are displaying little willingness to endure the tough measures -- such as pulling the props from under inefficient industries -- that economists believe are required to rev up Asia's engine again. And with Japan's whole political system stacked against radical change, it may take an extraordinary leader to make the necessary hard choices -- someone the smoky back room isn't designed to produce...
...while visiting my uncle, the Rev. Ellis Alford, in Hattiesburg, Miss., I met Vernon Dahmer Sr., who with my uncle and others, including some whites, was planning the strategy to elect a white woman as insurance commissioner. Dahmer was an impressive, deliberate man who was very easy to talk with. In late 1965 at March Air Force Base in California, I met his son Vernon Jr., who was characteristically like his father. The death of his father the following January made quite a stir. In 1966, you see, Riverside County, Calif., had much in common with Forest County, Miss...
...puts it in a place where it will be hidden." Now, y'all know the queen got her start singing in the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit. People say she left the sacred for the secular, forsook gospel for pop. But, truth is, as her father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin, said, "Truth is, Aretha hasn't ever left the church...
...world's wealthiest university refused to rev up a hidden "star system" of academic perks, some professors complained of stinginess, and one department faced high attrition in the face of an aggressively spending competitor...
Inside, seniors packed the pews. Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in Memorial Church Rev. Peter J. Gomes presided over the ceremony, seated in the front of the sanctuary...