Word: surround
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also wrong to assume that students only choose houses to surround themselves with others of a certain ethnicity or sexual orientation, or to avoid specific groups on those bases. In fact, it's insulting...
...need a monarch at all, or could the nation do just as well without? There are a few obvious advantages. The country profits from an enormous tourist trade, an $11.5 billion industry in 1990. London is one of the top destinations for traveling Americans, and the quaint ceremonies that surround royal life are a major part of its appeal. Then there is the less easily measured factor of the tradition and continuity that the crown represents, something to be proud of in the post-World War II decades when Britain has had to settle for considerably less wealth and power...
...this much. Have you noticed the terrible evasions in the presidential debates, when the most compelling issue of inner city violence was skated over, hidden beneath waves of economic statistics. Hide away in leafy suburbia, and I suppose you can close your mind to the nearby inferno. You can surround yourself within bars and alarms, and nurture a solipsistic terror about everyone outside. But what sort of life is that...
...absence of definitive answers, the Dutch were left with the unforgettable horror. As a cold wind whipped through the weeping willows that surround the apartment complex, Wynanda Pont, a native of Suriname, gazed at the gutted, burned hulk of a building where scorched laundry still hung from clotheslines and window boxes held a few lone geraniums. The 37-year-old teacher had been crocheting by her window across the street when she heard a crash and saw a wall of red flame. "I rushed outside," she recalled. "I can still hear the screaming. I saw a woman throw two children...
...challenge for Coach Tim Wheaton's sixth year will be to find the personnel to surround senior Laurie Uustal, last's year third leading scorer. For a team that struggled to put the ball in the net last year, that could be tough...