Word: set
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Final plans are released for Lamont Library, where "functional design will be the keynote." Construction of the library, which will be closed to Radcliffe students, is set to begin in June...
...case anyone hadn't figured it out by now, the question of Hillary Clinton's Senate run is all over but the announcing. The First Lady will set up an exploratory committee in early July, which means she's firmly committed to getting some people together next month to look into it -- and telling her competition to scram. "It's clear she is running," New York representative (and faithful Hillary bridesmaid) Nita Lowey told the New York Times after an orchestrated call of abdication to the First Lady. "It's time for me to move...
...National Congress (ANC) is expected to win a landslide victory is a sign of remarkable voter patience with a party that has not yet managed to deliver on its promise to provide jobs and homes for the impoverished majority. Rather than trying to unseat the ANC, opposition parties have set their sights on the more realistic -? but by no means certain -? objective of denying it the two-thirds parliamentary majority that would allow it to unilaterally rewrite the country?s constitution...
...already somewhere close to the edge." Copycats model themselves on crimes, both real and fictional, that grab a lot of attention. When the movie Money Train came out a few years ago, with a scene of flammable liquid being squirted into a New York City token booth and set on fire, real-life robbers duplicated the act and badly burned a token clerk. After the TV movie The Burning Bed aired in 1984, with Farrah Fawcett playing a battered wife who set her ex-husband on fire, a viewer in Milwaukee poured gasoline on his wife and burned...
Barak, who had already used Russian grievances in his own campaign, quickly hinted that he'd give Sharansky the Interior portfolio. It took Netanyahu a week to match the offer. The trend had been set. More and more Russians concluded that their natural home was with the secularist Barak and not with the ultra-Orthodox-allied Netanyahu. Barak will almost certainly feel obliged to give Interior to Sharansky's party, which also demands the Housing Ministry as vital to new immigrants. Sharansky says he has no problems working with the "very bright and very intellectual" Barak, though they...