Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With free love and acid trips out the window, one might ask what is left for those of us who had to sit through the morality lessons of the Reagan-Bush era? Scandals. Big juicy scandals, Sex, drugs, rock and roll, war, chaos, infidelity, treason, embezzlement and hypocrisy--and that's just the government...
...fracas not uncommon at this year's council meetings, the vote on the Powell letter was punctuated with political jockeying and posturing that led some council members to storm out of Sever Hall in an apparent attempt to thwart the formation of a quorum. Hanselman then conducted a roll call revote, but the tally fell short of quorum, essentially killing the letter...
...Harvard fails to retain students who have been accepted, since it does not pay for air tickets and roll out the red carpet for prospective Black students...
...wave continues to roll forward, so I ask the clerk to sell my holdings at 53, netting me a fast -- if meager -- $2.50 gain. The purchaser at the other end was Salomon Brothers. Of course, if I had been a regular customer at All-Tech, I would have bought 1,000 shares and earned $250 (minus an $80 commission) on the transaction. Not bad for a few minutes' work...
...Bosnia, agreed on by the U.S., Russia and several European allies, is in trouble. It would have created Muslim safe havens protected by U.N. forces and U.S. air power to enforce the peace. But critics at the U.N. argued that the plan failed to authorize military force to roll back territorial gains by the Bosnian Serbs...