Word: soles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Wednesday morning, a mediation attempt by Luce having failed, Rollins quit. Jordan was named the sole manager, and Luce announced that the campaign would continue. In fact, Perot had been thinking for a day or two about withdrawing but told no one. Perot canceled two appearances scheduled for later in the week and took counsel with himself. That night Perot met with Luce and Meyerson. Though they talked for an hour, Perot's mind was already made up. Meyerson made the case for fighting on. "This is what I'm going to do," Perot replied. "I'm going...
...still remember, as that editorial boardmeeting ended, that one classmate surveyed theassembled editors--women, men with thick glassesand the sole surviving son of a world War IIveteran--and declared, "I'm the only one herewho's ever going to be drafted." he was right...
...other creatures with whom we share the earth and a high probability of catastrophe for humanity itself. After years of preparation, however, the negotiators preparing the main documents for Rio have relegated the issue to a few delicately worded phrases. In the draft of the Rio Declaration, the sole mention of population is a deliberately ambiguous reference to "appropriate demographic policies...
...BIGGEST losers of the recession, however, were the Japanese--all of them collectively. They became one entity (referred to by Newsweek as "Japan,Inc.") out for the sole purpose of screwing over the USA. The USA, you see, didn't lose jobs because that's what happens in every natural economic downturn. No, we were exporting them to Japan Free trade is fine if you're a fuddy duddy economist trapped in an ivory tower, but for real people in the real world the catch phrase was (and is) "Buy American." Economists might have studies and data, but they...
...years in development, the sole working prototype for the costly F-22 Stealth fighter jet crash-landed and burst into flames during a test run in California last week. The pilot escaped unharmed. Air Force officials believe a computer glitch was at fault...