Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...later, the Republican-led Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the GOP's current spending plan for next year would siphon at least $18 billion of the fund's surplus. And that, it said, was a conservative estimate. DeLay and the rest of the GOP leadership had little to say about the apparently glaring contradiction; the GOP rank and file sound worried. Under nocircumstances? "That's kind of an absolute statement," fretted Illinois representative Ray LaHood. Added Indiana representative Mark Souder, "If the impression comes out that we're into Social Security but not admitting it, that's almost worse...
...look at the distribution [among Cambridge's public elementaries], there are lots of schools that are highly subscribed to," she says. "It seems to me they ought to look at that and say, 'Should we make more schools like that...
...have to sit down with my kids and tell them what they need to do, say 'This is how you study for a test,' and 'This is how you write a paper,' " she says...
After their arrest, the two say they were tortured by members of the military who applied electric shocks to all parts of their bodies and beaten with batons and fists. Their heads were wrapped in plastic bags and then put in water until they began suffocating...
...battle when they graduate? People at Harvard have their cute anti-militarisms and their stereotypes about the bigoted homophobes in military barracks. But they can't erase the fact that the men and women in the armed services hold their lives out to us each and every day and say "here, this is for you and your freedom." It's a precious gift that should be treated like gold. Can we give it nothing more than indifference and contempt...