Word: rolled
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...replace the current graduated income tax, which takes a larger bite from the upper brackets, with either a national sales tax or a flat tax of 17% on everybody. But it took congressional Democrats until week's end to utter their first opposition rhetoric. "We're not about to roll over and play dead while the Republicans rubber stamp their extremist, supply-side agenda," warned House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt...
...ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck." She adds that after she allowed the car to roll down a boat ramp into the water, "I took off running and screaming "Oh God! Oh God, no!" ... I wanted to turn around so bad and go back, but I knew it was too late. I was an absolute mental case! I couldn't believe what I had done." When she broke...
Notice how none of these players are freshmen. Funny, even if you extend the full roll call to include all the retaliatory hitting-after-the-whistle penalties and Brad Konik's five-minute cross-checking violation after the game's final whistle, the Class of 1998 had zero penalty minutes...
...music of Hootie & the Blowfish gets its charge from rock 'n' roll, but it's grounded in the blues. The quartet got together when its members were party-happy students at the University of South Carolina at Columbia. Lead singer Darius Rucker says the band was formed "to make a bit of money, drink a few beers and meet a lot of girls." That was nine years ago. On their major label debut, Cracked Rear View (Atlantic), the band still plays with frat- party swagger -- big, bearish guitar work, brawny drumming -- but Rucker's expressive, doleful vocals reveal an admirably...
...TIME State Department correspondentJ.F.O. McAllister. "There's been a lot of concern since the nuclear agreement that the South Koreans -- especially the extremists in the government -- are uneasy about talking to the North," says McAllister. "This is a sign that the moderates are winning and are definitely on a roll."Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...