Word: runs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would a guy so rich and famous run for the mostly thankless job of mayor? "I had always fought the System from outside," says Goodman, "and figured I'd take a shot at doing some good from inside." Goodman has lived 35 years in Las Vegas and has proved a tireless glad-hander during this campaign. He has led in the polls, including one published last Thursday, and is expected to win this week's primary, though not with a margin large enough to avoid a runoff vote in June...
...asked a lot of questions, and you don't know if the guy's ever going to call again." Following her nightly performances on Broadway, Friel often goes to a divey neighborhood bar, where she has been learning to swing dance. We suspect that she doesn't run into Dame Judi Dench or Kate Winslet there...
...trying not to become alarmed by the evidence that American bottoms are steadily widening, even though it's not easy to escape the conclusion that if this trend continues, we may, as a nation, run out of places to sit. The disquieting proof of our spreading behinds came to me via an admirably thorough piece by Rene Sanchez in the Washington Post, a piece that confirmed a vague feeling I'd been having on the subway lately that the seat running along most of the length of the car seemed awfully crowded considering how few people were sitting...
...also been criticized for not acting faster on April 20 to storm the school and stop the shootings. The strongest claim could come from the family of Dave Sanders, the teacher who bled to death while waiting three hours for help. Yet any suit against the police would again run into immunity problems, as well as the reluctance of courts to second-guess police on tactics. "It's not like Waco, where law enforcement's own action produced the death," says Denver trial lawyer Bill Keating...
Rule 2 Remember, a new game is like a fever. It must run its course. Allow generous playtime when the game is new, preferably during a school vacation...