Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is so tragic about Means's campaign is that be sees no hope in anything but separation. The few services still offered by the government will be jeopardized when a tidal wave of $180 billion in red ink rolls into Congress is spring. And the current Administration seems to have no concern for protecting the landscape from developers. The end result of such a tragedy can only be polarization, annihilation, and despair...
...ovation for the heroism in Grenada of Sergeant Stephen Trujillo, an Army Ranger from Denver, "who reminds us what it means to be Americans." Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, moderator of the Democratic response to Reagan, cited the death in Beirut of Marine Corporal Edward Gargano from Quincy, Mass., as tragic proof that the Administration's Lebanon policy is wrongheaded...
Occasionally the byproducts of sudden wealth are tragic. The public sale of Eagle Computer stock in June made President...
Unfortunately, a number of women who give birth to infected children are unaware that they have been exposed to the disease. In two out of 35 cases in the Seattle study, husbands had not told their wives about the infection. In such cases, only honesty can help prevent the tragic consequences to young victims...
...Yale Athletic Department had shown last November the same "Compton sense" the Canadian Football League (CFL) did recently, Margaret Cimino '87's tragic accident would have avoided. Prior to an important CFI, playoff game, the goalposts were coated heavily with Vaseline. This ridiculously simple trick accomplished what any number of security guards couldn't--perverting an divert bolsters crowd from injuring theorized by a falling...