Word: sought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possibility of abrupt incapacitation--than they will admit publicly. And if the government falls even farther behind this fall and winter with its payroll, aides are concerned about public uprisings. Their nightmare is that both events will happen simultaneously. Speaking to TIME, a Kremlin adviser described the scenario they sought to pre-empt by firing Lebed: unrest breaks out, Yeltsin's failing health disables him, and Lebed declares the President unfit to rule, calling on the military and security structures to help him "induce order" in the country. Nobody, however, except Interior Minister Kulikov seems to take seriously the tale...
...doing this study, we sought to understand how racial discrimination affects health in ways that may be modified by social class and gender," said Krieger, assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. "This is profoundly different from approaches that treat 'race' as if it were some kind of inherent characteristic...
...there was little doubt about where Roosevelt stood. In his last major speech of the campaign, before a teeming crowd in Madison Square Garden, FDR "called the roll" of those who had stood with him and those who had sought to stifle his "bold, persistent experimentation." He spoke out against the "enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering...
...Larry, Nick Parillo projects his image as Normal Guy in a Bin of Loonies a little too hard. Long after the audience has gotten used to the weirdness of this family, he's still in buggy-eyed disbelief. But the discovery that his long-sought love, Trixy (Erica Mitnick), is an ex-ho and "born-again virgin," is a challenge that expands his character's previously one-note personality. Jessie Conrad is excellent as the sultry mother, and just the bantering (it doesn't just stop there) that goes on between her and her son deserves an "R" rating...
Despite a Boston Globe article indicating there is "no proof" that Kerry sought to aid real estate developer Wesley Finch, Weld claimed the allegations shed new light on Kerry's character...