Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...storms had struck and at least four people had been swept to their death by mudslides and raging waters. With another severe weather system bearing down on the coast--and ocean temperatures in the Pacific still hovering at an unseasonably high 84[degrees]F--there was no relief in sight...
...every weather anomaly has its dark side. In a normal year, for example, the winter storm that hit New England and southern Canada in January might have dumped a thick blanket of snow on the region. Instead rain fell on low-lying arctic air and glazed everything in sight with thick layers of ice, knocking out power to 4 million people in one of the worst natural disasters in Canadian history...
...shortly after dinner, in a white tent over the West Terrace, as Wonder began You Are the Sunshine of My Life, an aide handed Clinton confidant Harry Thomason a printout off the Internet of a New York Times story about Betty Currie's testimony. The sight of Thomason hunched over in the dim blue light with Clinton adviser Rahm Emanuel, straining to read, set off a buzz among the reporters on the press riser behind them. Abruptly, Peter Jennings left. Stop the music: Clinton may be done in--and by his own secretary...
...loose sight of the fact that we have more things in common than we do different," Wilson says...
...dining halls that race becomes a greater and more dynamic concern. In my experience, black students tend to socialize apart from white students. Every year, it seems, a majority of black first-years sit together at the same table. Although football and hockey tables are also present, the sight of an all-black table seems to engender the most questions, comments and stares. What is it about an ethnic group deciding to eat together that makes others feel uncomfortable...