Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fear, gunfire and, most of all, uncertainty about the future. In the slums of Port-au-Prince, there were high hopes for "the democrat Clinton" with a small d. Deep in a warren of concrete hovels without running water or sanitation, a voodoo priest sat beneath the corrugated tin roof of his temple. The people of his neighborhood, he said, had supported Clinton despite reprisals from the army that rules the country. "A lot of people were beaten up here because we believed in Clinton, and the Haitian authorities wanted Bush re-elected," he said. "We couldn't talk about...
...income in America. Inequality had got worse, and all the tax breaks had gone to the people who were doing better anyway. This is a much more unequal country than it was 10 years ago. I just don't want to see us raise the gas tax through the roof on top of what has already been done to middle-class people and small- business people without some effort to put fairness back in the system...
...were bullet holes. At school the next day she told friends about the house and the broken door. The older girl, insulted and hurt, fired back that at least her mother had a house and wasn't so poor she had to live with a man to gain a roof over her head. Pannell listens calmly, then convinces the two that they should make up. They disappear down the hall skipping and laughing...
Noyes and the 22 students of Science A-36,"Observing the Sun and the Stars," watched theeclipse from the roof of the Science Center. Noyesand Professor of Astronomy Jonathan E. Grindlay,who co-teaches the class, used high precisionequipment to monitor the amount of light that wasreflected...
...guitar-driven sound of this band, unlike that of groups like Sonic Youth, isn't filled with distortion and feedback. Songs like "Staples," "Taillights Fade," and "Velvet Roof' are straight-forward, accessible rock...