Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Frustrating" is how they described it. Most candidates for the Undergraduate Council said they think the nullification of last week's general election results will decrease voter turn-out and could increase student apathy toward the council...
Teenagers with Walkmen and books head toward the bus station, shouting to each other; mothers push baby carriages across the main street...
...press release from the American Heart Association meeting, lead author Dr. Speranza Rubatu, from the Department of Experimental Medicine and Pathology at La Sapienza University, Rome, and Instituto Neurologico Mediterraneo, Neuromed, at Pozzilli, Italy, says, "We believe that this is an important finding toward the development of a more comprehensive way of assessing a person's overall risk of developing a stroke. The identification of genes and their molecular variants that contribute to strokes help us diagnose the risk earlier and suggest lifestyle modifications or develop new medicines to reduce the overall risk of stroke...
...needed a whole new category of discipline. By Saturday afternoon, censure was out and "sanctions" were in, which would include financial reparations for misuse of government resources during the past eight months and a demand that Clinton settle all legal issues with independent counsel Ken Starr, with an eye toward some admission of wrongdoing. Among those at the table or on the phone were White House officials, former Clinton aides Lloyd Cutler and Leon Panetta, top Democrats in Congress and their lawyers, including longtime Democratic counselor Bob Bauer. White House officials carefully leaked that the President has not yet agreed...
When I consider the main features of American ideology and its resulting contemptuous behavior toward the rest of the world, I fear for the future of the human race. The bombings of Sudan and Afghanistan are reminiscent of the lynchings of the wild west and bode ill for the future. Such conduct shows us that the line between civilization and the law of the jungle is a very fine one. HILARY PETTS PERE Pau, France