Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though, is the fact that no one is doing anything about those problems that are real to us. The impeachment of a president over a feat of semantics seems a lot less real than the fact that my mother teaches at a school where 12 different languages are spoken, a lot less real than the schools I've seen where there aren't any books for the students...
...community has spoken when not enough people vote or run to fill all the seats", said Michael O'Mary '99, who won his Quincy House seat after elections were over by voting for himself by e-mail...
...resolution of censure. It included a half-million-dollar payment to the U.S. Treasury, cancellation of this year's State of the Union address and provisions barring Clinton in the future from raising funds for the Democratic Party and holding elected office. Clinton, who cherishes his power with the spoken word, balked at giving up the State of the Union. He seemed willing to consider the others. After the meeting, Houghton described the President as "whipped and down...
...operations to break up bin Laden's terror network. The agency's counterterrorism center--200 operatives housed in a windowless warren of cubicles in the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters--had set up a special bin Laden task force. Analysts were assigned to read every word the Saudi had spoken or written. Computers with sophisticated "link analysis" programs were busy printing out diagrams of bin Laden's loose-knit network, which included thousands of Muslim fighters with varying degrees of allegiance to him in almost a dozen countries. In early 1996, intelligence sources tell TIME, the CIA also began making...
...used up her time on workmen's comp, which she was awarded for unrelated but disabling ergonomic pain. And she's been terminated by Southwest for failing to return to work within the 36 months allowed for medical leave. Along with half a dozen other employees who have spoken out about their health problems, Polansky is consumed by mounting medical bills, the cost of her lawsuits against the airline and the air-conditioning company that serviced the building, and by Southwest's countercharge that she is an opportunist whose medical problems are unrelated to the building...