Word: rooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quasi-normal fashion. Some 300 media types covered her kickoff endorsement at Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Delaware County farm last Wednesday, and the education event that afternoon began a war of attrition. Says an adviser: "It was fun to watch the TV cameras shut down and leave the room one by one." On Thursday the media horde had dwindled to 200; by Friday it was down...
Wretched salaries are not the only source of demoralization. Living conditions would provoke a mutiny in many countries. Sergei, the Spetsnaz noncommissioned officer, lives in a slum. Officially called noncommissioned officers' married quarters, his single room measures 5 ft. by 8 ft., and he lives there with his wife and daughter. Ten families share a rat-infested kitchen and a single toilet whose walls are rotting from dampness. Sergei does not wear his uniform when he goes into the city--civilians view soldiers as losers, he says...
...certain songs and albums to certain points in my life. I mentally prepared myself to play lacrosse to the driving rhythms of the Nixons; Van Halen played before my wrestling matches and Miles Davis has been known to make appearances in my room before midterms, soothing my mind and allowing me to penetrate denser material...
Unlike Sofen, I find nothing alarming about the fact that the museum contained a "special room" for Jefferson Davis or "still-polished Confederate weapons." Sofen complains that these artifacts made the New South he'd read so much about in magazines "seem worlds away...
...persuade the paramilitary groups to stick to the plan to negotiate a timetable for decommissioning weapons with Canadian mediator General John de Chastelain. Last Easter, Mitchell appeared to achieve a miracle by brokering an historic agreement between parties so mistrustful of each other they insisted on sitting in separate rooms. This time he may want to lock them up in the same room and take away their cell phones...