Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign to roll back the welfare-state programs they hated, the deficit was an all-purpose weed whacker. Year after year, Republicans lived without big new tax cuts in return for the Democrats' giving up any hope of new spending. In that climate of discipline, the surplus took root. But it is much harder to keep those restraints in place when the Treasury seems awash in money. And those crowd-pleasing tax cuts? Though Republicans last week proposed a new capital-gains-tax reduction, it turns out the dreamy economy has left voters' pockets so full that polls show about...
...first phase of the Florida trial took eight months and involved more than 39,000 documents. But the plaintiffs' lawyers kept it simple. Cigarettes are addictive and dangerous, they told the jury. The industry has manipulated nicotine levels to make cigarettes more addictive, they argued, and misrepresented the risks. "This didn't require any grand or innovative legal strategy, because the facts about the industry's behavior were bad enough," says University of Miami law professor Clark Freshman...
...that far. The defendants will no doubt appeal the jury's verdict, and they have often fared well on appeal. In a little more than a year, Florida appellate courts have thrown out a $1 million verdict and a $750,000 verdict in tobacco cases. The industry took heart last Friday when a Louisiana jury absolved two tobacco companies of responsibility in the cancer death of an individual smoker...
Between 1968 and 1972, however, nine of Apollo 18's brother rockets did fly astronauts to the moon, six of them taking crews straight down into the powdered-sugar soil of the ancient lunar surface. Thirty years ago, Apollo 11, the first of those historic missions, took off from Cape Kennedy carrying space veterans Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin. Four days later, on July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin actually set their ugly, leggy lunar module down on the plains of the Sea of Tranquillity, becoming the first two men to walk on another world. Over the next...
...example set by his late mother Bessie, a laundress. He watched as she helped others who were less fortunate, even when she could barely feed her family. She made Dawson and his siblings promise always to "give something back," no matter how little. It's a lesson he took with him back in 1940 when he headed for Detroit...