Word: solider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...showing in New Hampshire suggests that he could do well in this area, more reason for students to take their voting seriously. America's next president needs to have the vision to lead the entire country into the 21st century. At the heart of this vision must be a solid belief in democracy and free trade, not a dangerous reliance on national socialism...
Scientists had suspected that the disease, which killed 245 in the Zairian town of Kikwit last year, was transmitted to humans from chimpanzees or other forest creatures. Thanks to the latest outbreak, that theory now looks pretty solid. But where is the virus coming from? Chimps seem to be as susceptible as people to the pathogen, so it's unlikely that they can harbor it for long periods of time...
There is, however, a way to avoid all the potential unpleasantness associated with blocking groups. Don't block, just float. It is a simple solution, but it requires a solid constitution on the part of the floater. Very few of us have the courage to assert our independence in that way, to put our faith and our future happiness in the hands of fate. Or is it chance...
...intimate relation between the old merit-based financial aid system and the mid-1960s innovation that endures as "pass/fail," the rapid disappearance of courses in geography and physical anthropology or the demise of the mandatory five-course-a-term (with option for a sixth) requirement. Few undergraduates know that solid liberal arts schools once assumed that secondary-school seniors applied with a minimum of four years, and sometimes six or more years, of foreign-language study...
...provincialism of a United States at war in a former French colony it considered wholly Asian. Accidental daybreak listening lured me into programming directed at non-American listeners deeply intrigued by all things American, including the vagaries of American English. For 35 years I listened, lately with a magnificent solid-state receiver I rescued one graduation day from a curbside trash barrel and refitted with a long copper antenna, realizing that my hour-a-day rowboat restoration projects proceed best when the world whispers in my boatshop...