Word: stopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just stop with the Stanford envy, and try to appreciate the unusual loveliness of the nothing-if-not-variable New England weather. Maybe I'm being ridiculously optimistic, but how can I help it? It's such a nice, warm, fragrant fall...
...theory, there's plenty in the Financial Services Modernization Act for everyone. Individuals should end up getting faster answers and better rates on things like home mortgages and insurance, and corporate clients will be able to issue stock and buy directors' insurance with a single call. One-stop shopping for financial services up and down the customer ladder is mainly what this bill is about. Yes, you've heard it before, and, yes, it failed miserably in the 1980s. (Remember Sears, which added another dimension--buy stocks where you buy socks?) But with the government's stamp of approval...
...fight to win the vote for women was actually a kind of religious movement. Theorist Stanton and tactician Anthony transposed an evangelical fervor into a social one, moving, via moral causes like temperance (embraced by proto-feminists to stop domestic abuse), to a lifelong devotion to women's liberty and the vote, an objective neither lived to see achieved. The four-hour double profile does well by focusing a decades-long movement on this symbiotic friendship...
...offering a month's free service to make up for recent difficulties with her phone line. All she had to do was "log on"--that is, reply with her username and password. She duly did so. The next weekend she started getting angry notes from strangers, demanding that she stop sending them pornography...
...rally, at which Perl-Matanzo spoke in both Spanish and English, the crowd chanted "Stop the bombing, Peace in Vieques," and, in Spanish, "Navy, go to hell...