Word: solider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...freshman Kyle Snowden, who has ensured himself a solid spot in the rotation with his sparkling play at power forward, scored 15 points and added seven rebounds...
...influence over the national media than any other organization, seems likely to win the most seats, the group will probably have to share power with sizable blocs of communists, nationalists and fringe candidates. The plethora of parties does not make it easy for voters to vest authority in a solid majority. And since the campaign will be brief, the winners -- just as in more practiced democracies -- will inevitably be the candidates with the best-known names. Like actresses, pop singers, fashion designers -- and perhaps even the occasional politician...
...wobbly? Interestingly, Grunbaum himself thinks all is not lost, although his verdict is not entirely cheering: "I categorically don't believe Freud is dead. The question is, Are they trustworthy explanations? Have the hypotheses been validated by cogent, solid evidence? My answer to that...
...since Jurassic Park opened in France only in October, whereas The Visitors has been playing since February), but the Poire comedy is a genuine phenomenon, earning a record-smashing $70 million. "We have no dinosaurs," Poire said smilingly on opening night. What The Visitors has is a solid farce premise (a 12th century knight and his servant are magically stranded in today's French suburbs), a toilet-bowl sense of humor and a few tricks swiped from Hollywood: breakneck pace and gaudy visual effects. The time-travel buffoonery of Encino Man meets Ghostbusters' technical sorcery. En France...
...many ways, the $22 billion crime bill moving through Congress this week is as flimsy as a tin badge. Around its core of solid proposals -- money to build more high-security prisons and help local governments hire more cops -- are the kind of specious gestures that are made whenever Washington tries to tap into voter sentiment on what is largely a state-and-local issue. If adopted in its present form, the bill will extend the death penalty to 47 mostly uncommon crimes and create 60 new federal crimes for acts that are already punished by state law. Among...