Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pittsburgh, a huge team with eight players at least six-feel-tall, started to turn things around in the second game...
They are not alone. A clutch of new satellite-based services from a half-dozen similar corporate alliances is launching into orbit. They are likely to turn the earth's lower atmosphere into a space jam of communications links promising to keep us in touch--anytime, anywhere. The systems rely on a new version of an old (at least for the aerospace business) and proven technology...
...staffs, members of the President's shadow lobbying enterprise are in a good position to test Clinton's fortunes. Separately, businessman Terry McAuliffe, Clinton's close friend and principal fund raiser, is known to have phoned hundreds of Democratic financial supporters to rally support for the President. They, in turn, are calling in their support to Democratic lawmakers. And it would be hard for lawmakers to miss the implicit message: You want my money? We want your vote. Or at least, hold your fire before all the evidence is in. This has been especially important with Senators and Congressmen...
...Peter Rodino presided over the Watergate-era House Judiciary Committee and its soberly bipartisan center. Several of that committee's key votes were unanimous, and that was deliberate. There was enough goodwill among members to keep secret the special prosecutor's detailed "road map" to the evidence rather than turn it into political fuel by putting it on the airwaves. In the impeachment debate that followed, a group of moderate Southern Democrats and liberal Republicans--including the future Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, then a Maine Congressman--laid out the pros and cons, agonized publicly and ultimately decided to move...
...countries, sit side by side, but common faith doesn't make them friendly. In fact, each despises the other's brand of Islam. Now Iran's Shi'ite leaders and the Sunni Taliban militia that has nearly succeeded in imposing its rule over most of Afghanistan are threatening to turn an ancient theological schism into a fighting...