Word: slivering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last leaves cling to the trees. It has rained: the water caught in furrows of the fields holds reflected sunset -- sweet sky visible through holes in the earth. We cross the Bosna River and head into the mountains. There is a sliver of new moon. It looks somehow covert -- like an eyelid, watching...
Though Clinton was the most liberal candidate in the field, he managed to come across as enough of a centrist to draw slightly more support from independents than other Democratic candidates had. On the other hand, he ran behind Dukakis among those who identified themselves as liberal. A sliver of them apparently stayed home. And, despite Perot's appeal to independents -- the Texas billionaire captured one-quarter of those unaffiliated with the two parties -- Clinton still won a plurality of those voters...
EVEN THOUGH FRANCE SAID OUI TO THE MAAStricht treaty on economic and political union, its voice was not hearty enough to still the turmoil in Europe. The majority for approval in last week's referendum was a sliver-thin 51%, which simply highlighted the doubts among ordinary citizens about the rapid course of European unification. Paris and Bonn still hope the treaty can go into effect by the end of the year as planned, but it seems unlikely that all 12 members of the European Community will be able to approve it by then...
...planet's molten outer core. At the rate of nearly 5 cm (2 in.) a year, the Pacific plate to the west of the San Andreas is slowly pushing north, past the North American plate on the east. One possible result: 60 million or so years from now, a sliver of the California coast that includes the megalopolis of Los Angeles could become beachfront property in Alaska...
Himself an Olympic ice hockey player--he holdsa sliver medal from the 1956 Olympics and a goldfrom the 1960 games--Cleary said he wishes theevents were restricted to amateurs, so that youngathletes would have the opportunity to compete...