Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turn of the century, it's entirely appropriate for the president and the trustees to solicit input regarding Radcliffe's future," Armini said...
While we are waiting for the midnight call of "It's over" to signal the end of the shift, we drive around the block. At a stoplight, another squad car bumps into the back of our car, causing us both to turn around. The officers in the other car jokingly turn on the take-downs, and we squint as they pull alongside laughing...
...fair to Clark R. Chapman, the Southwest Research Institute asteroid expert, there are an awful lot of rocks out there, and fewer than 200 have been ticked off the list of an expected 2,000 near-Earth objects. But Chapman's star turn at the House Science Committee Thursday provided little more than an advert for NASA's proposed $5 million asteroid tracking program, a wrist-slap for the Clinton administration's vetoing of an Air Force asteroid mission, and -- whisper it low -- a chance for Congress to cash in on the "Deep Impact" craze before Godzilla stomps all over...
...Essentially I didn't want to turn down either the Pirates and pro baseball or Harvard," Turlais says...
...high-profile role on 226 won't do him any harm with party conservatives. He's pushing hard, lobbying conservative donors in Washington and Republican Governors around the country. Chuck Mack, president of the Teamsters Local 70, calls 226 "the most serious attack on labor since they tried to turn California into a right-to-work state in 1958." The unions won that one, but at that time 40% of the state's work force was unionized. Now it's just 16%, and polls show that many union members are backing 226, at least for now. Though polls indicate that...