Word: ring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...necessary in the weeks ahead, when all who have watched the carnage unfold will have to reckon with its meaning. It was one thing to imagine the threats from outside, the killers seeping across porous borders, waging war for causes beyond understanding. It was quite another to behold the ring of police cars descending on a pristine white farmhouse nestled in acres of cropland and wonder what hatreds are growing here at home, next door, right in plain sight...
...gates and car barriers. In the Underground system and many other public places, litter baskets-an easy place to plant bombs-have been removed. In July 1993, after the ira exploded two bombs in London's financial center, the 1-sq.-mi. district called the City, officials threw a "ring of steel" around the area. Smaller streets have been closed off at one end, channeling traffic down just seven main arteries where police conduct random checkpoints and high-resolution cameras record license plates and drivers. Private businesses have also been encouraged to install cameras that sweep the streets, until nearly...
Senate majority leader Bob Dole, the current Republican front runner, made it official and formally declared he is a candidate for President. He was followed into the ring by one of the G.O.P.'s darker horses: California Congressman Bob Dornan, an ultra-conservative firebrand. Dornan becomes the seventh Republican to enter the race...
Nothing seems to go right for this movie. The most talented actor, Peter Gallagher, languishes in a coma almost for the duration of the film. The most affecting moment--when Jack proposes marriage to Lucy by dropping a diamond ring into her dish of tokens--comes after such inanity that most of the audience has already tuned...
...waste now occupies about "half a drum" in a specially designed room in the basement of the Albert Building at the Medical School, Ring said...