Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That family split up after her grandmother's death in 1916. Haizlip's mother, then a young adult, remained Washington D.C. while the rest of her immediate relatives left...
...know where the solution to gender inequities lies. But I do know that it is not in a 50/50 split of money by gender. Such a system simply doesn't make sense. For instance, at any of our nation's military academies, women number far less than do men. To spend equal amounts of money on men's and women's athletics at such an institution is not logical. So perhaps spending money in equal proportions to the ratio of women to men in the student body is the solution. But that system ignores the fact that for most schools...
...certainly getting a lot of help from the tattered and divisive Democratic Party. The party's congressional wing defines itself by confronting the Republicans almost as a reflex, while Clinton tends toward conciliation. Morris' growing influence is sure to exacerbate that split, even though his career makes clear that he is able--and willing--to argue any side of a political issue in order to win, a telling trait his buddy Clinton has also been accused of possessing. At the same time, no amount of accommodation seems to placate Southern conservatives. Last week Congressman Nathan Deal of Georgia became...
...Nghe bridge, knocking out two ARVN M41 tanks. Rolling into almost deserted streets, the column kept going toward its target, the Presidential Palace. But where was it? Says Major Hoa: "The only directions we had were to go through seven intersections and we would find the palace." His column split up; at the head of three tanks, 843 clattered down a boulevard so lined with leafy trees that "we couldn't see what was at the end. We met a woman on a motorcycle, and we stopped to ask her where the palace was. It was right there...
...There are not many options open to us without them," Ball said. "We would be forced to split up children, use split shifts or purchase portable classrooms...