Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Assembly of People's Power and an intimate of the Comandante's, insists that he is "very happy," but that seemed to refer mainly to his "victory" in the Jan. 11 National Assembly elections, where only one candidate designated by the party could run for each seat...
Mary Bono to Run For Late Husband's Seat...
...Judge Burrell approached his seat, Ted Kaczynski took a deep breath, gulped down a drink of water, and began his first public statement since his arrest nearly two years...
Which is what could happen in California this week. Bauer has inserted himself into a battle between two Republicans in a special election for a House seat in Santa Barbara. The district is made up mostly of fiscally conservative, socially moderate Republicans, which is why Speaker Newt Gingrich was backing Brooks Firestone, an heir to the family tire business who became a winemaker and, since 1994, a moderate, pro-choice state assemblyman. But a furious Bauer ponied up $100,000 for an ad campaign that zings Firestone for his refusal to back a ban on partial-birth abortions and promotes...
...buildings outside, everything appears incredibly sharp and focused, and the voices of the people around you sound remarkably loud and distinct. Later in the day during your exam, perhaps you begin examining ordinary objects as if they were quite extraordinary, noticing with tremendous interest the edges of the seat in front of you or the chew-marks on your pencil. But by noon, people are laughing at you at lunch as you contemplate your fork, completely oblivious to anything they've said for the previous 20 minutes. After lunch comes that gap in the day that you have been longing...