Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find out whether and why the city he loves and thinks he knows includes the living dead, McIlvaine seeks the help of Edmund Donne, a rare honest captain in the municipal police, which has become, under Tweed, "an organization of licensed thieves." The trail these two follow -- with powerful forces conspiring against them -- leads sinuously through accumulating outrages: unexplained murders, a mysterious orphanage, missing millions in inheritances and a waterworks north of the city where very strange things are going...
Sounding like the "new" Democrat he portrayed himself as on the campaign trail, President Clinton today launched his welfare-reform program by extolling work and the traditional family. He chose a heartland site, Kansas City, Missouri, to lay out his $9.3 billion plan's major component: a back-to-work scheme limiting welfare moms to two years on the dole. Republicans predictably fired back by calling the plan a big-spending initiative...
...thing is, I've learned all this already. Every spot between the Freedom Trail and the Arboretum offers both a public legend and a personal memory. The Old North Church, where the revolutionaries hung lanterns of Paul Revere to see, is where my best friend's grandmother celebrated Mass every day for decades...
...logging companies do their own surveys. But regulations have slowed log production, and Pacific has fought back. In 1990 the company reamed a broad, mile-and-a-half corridor into the middle of the Headwaters forest and called it, with a wink and a snicker, "our wildlife-biologist study trail...
Deep in the Headwaters forest, as these matters simmered, activist Thron spent his day making photos, then hiked back down the trail after dark. Last fall Hurwitz's lawyers threatened to sue Thron unless he ceased his photographic raids and stopped giving the Headwaters show. He and Ingrey kept on trucking. The two were married last week in Arcata and plan to hit the road with fresh slides...