Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After that seven-game winning streak, we felt that we were really on a roll," senior forward Mike Gilmore said. "[After the Brown loss,] I thought at the time that it would help us, but it put us in a downward spiral...
...Western experts are deeply concerned that regardless of what he says, Yeltsin may have lost his taste for transforming the economy and may even reverse some of the advances he has made. An even graver worry is that Communist Party chief Gennadi Zyuganov will win the election and roll the economy back to state-controlled socialism. "The people who said the reforms could never be reversed are coming up short," says Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Harvard Russian Research Center. "At the moment, everyone's in a race to see who can go backward the fastest...
...meaning" of the DeBarba meeting. Betancourt's wife and children began to be worried that he would be fired. "Why don't you just do what they want you to?" his eldest girl asked. Betancourt didn't know quite how to answer. "Your own daughter telling you to roll over," he says...
Proving once again that politics makes strange bedfellows, the Clinton Administration has sided with Stevens--a leader of Republican efforts to roll back environmental regulations--as have the Environmental Defense Fund, the World Wildlife Federation and the Center for Marine Conservation. They argue that unless the Latin nations are given credit for their efforts, they will simply resume their bad old ways. Meanwhile, Earth Island Institute, the Sierra Club, the Humane Society and Friends of the Earth vehemently oppose the Stevens bill and support Boxer's, charging that the delegation in Panama sold out the dolphins to free trade...
LAST YEAR THE REPUBLICAN FRESHMEN rolled into Washington toting the Contract with America and vowing to dilute and roll back decades of laws and regulations, including those aimed at ensuring clean air, clean water and unsullied wilderness areas. But because they misread popular sentiment on the environment, the G.O.P. took a beating in the polls on this issue. Now as many as 91 House Republicans are voting with the Democrats on environmental measures. Shortly after the House reconvenes this week, Speaker Newt Gingrich is expected to announce the formation of a task force to review the Republican approach...