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Majority leader Dole ordered his staff early this month to work something out. But just when they thought they had a deal--poof!--another hold suddenly materialized. Only this time, word quickly got out that it was the work of Minnesota freshman Rod Grams. After that revelation, it took only a few days to work out a deal under which the bill will come to the Senate floor. And although the bill's supporters were livid over the delay, no one is talking seriously about abolishing holds. That's because almost every Senator has used it at one time...
...were looking for someone to bail them out. There's a historic rivalry there like the Red Sox and the Yankees. But as members of NATO on the southern flank of Europe they are strategically important. So their rivalry causes problems for us. Clinton acted as the lightning rod and took away the electricity...
...ills of society continue to be brought to light today, people are beginning to seek answers in the old adage, "Spare the rod, spoil the child." As they proclaim a few beatings in a child's youth are better than years in prison later, it seems that they are missing better solutions to the problems of our youth. Communication and education go further than coat hangers and paddles, and more knowledge than more fear will take us farther...
...only did those programs change, but if you looked at the admissions materials, and if you heard their presentations on the rod it was clear that the message was if you applied early decision at those other places you would probably have a slightly better chance of getting in," Fitzsimmons said...
...into place. Just last month, in an article published by the journal Nature, an international team of scientists reported finding the exquisitely preserved remains of a 1-in.- to 2-in.-long animal that flourished in the Cambrian oceans 525 million years ago. From its flexible but sturdy spinal rod, the scientists deduced that this animal - dubbed Yunnanozoon lividum, after the Chinese province in which it was found - was a primitive chordate, the oldest ancestor yet discovered of the vertebrate branch of the animal kingdom, which includes Homo sapiens...