Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dartmouth, though, retaliated by scoring the next three goals. This turn of events may have sent the Crimson packing, but the squad evened the game as freshman Angie Francisco picked up a loose puck in front of the net and rifled it in for her seventh goal of the year...
...Clinton has killed one brand of Democratic centrism, nurtured another, watched it bear fruit, and now has seen his ideological offspring turn on their maker. Not bad for one presidency...
...perestroika era remained on Saturday. Upon check-in, you were issued an index card that was either pink and read EXAM in Magic Marker or was purple and tagged COLLECTION. Then, despite the fact that the place was crawling with agents, you were directed to wait your turn in a row of empty chairs. When your name was called, you were passed through a metal detector and ferried upstairs to an undecorated 6-by-6 cubicle. There you met the agent who would pore over dot-matrix printouts of your financial woes...
...finish--can be committed by only one person. Get others involved, the reasoning goes, and sooner or later someone will crack. Perhaps Thomas Capano, in his privileged sphere, was unaware of that underworld wisdom. Perhaps his hubris got in the way. Perhaps he never thought his own family would turn...
What will that turn out to be? The first target set is sure to include Saddam's command-and-control and air-defense systems--pulverized in 1991 but steadily rebuilt in the years since. Because the strategy is to make the targets "proportional"--that is, linked to the weapons of mass destruction that have precipitated this mess--the Pentagon is leaning against bombing Saddam's dozens of palaces or waging an all-out assault on his Republican Guard, although locations and Guard units thought to be harboring biological weapons will be hit. They won't target Saddam...