Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this time, whenever I don't have work to do, the most I want to read is the credits on a movie or the latest on cnnsi.com. My attitude toward reading at school hasn't changed since then...
...snuff out the largest protest movement seen in Iran since the revolution. Although he risks alienating some of his most committed supporters by backing away from the protesters who carried his portrait through the streets, Khatami knows from experience that conservative crackdowns tend to drive the broader Iranian public toward the reformist agenda. And with parliamentary elections looming next May, a conservative backlash may work in his favor in the long term. Besides, his only alternative may have been political martyrdom...
...threaded his way up through fields of jagged boulders and knee-deep snow toward the summit of Colorado's Mount Bierstadt last week, Denver banker Don Pritchett looked forward to the splendor and isolation of the 14,060-ft. peak. But when he reached the top, he found he had to share the wind-torn precipice with nine other climbers and a Labrador retriever. According to a logbook wedged in the rocks, a dozen more climbers had already beaten him to the summit that morning...
...sort. He was actually creating a month-long, super-duper buying opportunity. After all that hand-wringing, accompanied by a rocky sell-off of so many stock favorites, we get a wee little quarter-point hike and a flat statement saying the Fed is no longer biased toward tightening. Greenspan gave you a total green light to get long stocks...
Millions of less fortunate families bemoan the scarcity of such basic resources as recreation centers with a staff or basketball hoops with nets on them. In many of their neighborhoods, public money for after-school activities has declined, even in a time of plenty. Instead governments are directing resources toward law enforcement, education and other means of curbing such social ills as teen pregnancy, drug abuse and gang violence...