Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emperor of Vietnam in the 1950s. Instead of helping to patch the volatile Vietnamese political system, he was content to lead the life of a playboy and womanizer. He indirectly aided Vietnam's conversion to communism, since those wishing to have a democratic, independent Vietnam had no one to turn to as a leader...
...fate didn't have a role in that turn of events, consider that the previous field goal, a 21-yard boot set up by a 62-yard catch and run by senior Colby PRINCETON 12 HARVARD...
...golfer Greg Norman squandered a six-shot lead at the Masters. "This thing could get away from us," the President warns. What he meant then was that his pre-election lead in the polls could similarly melt away. All the same, that's a remark that could turn out to be true in ways he didn't mean at the time...
...long as possible. For the past two weeks, G.O.P. majority leader Dick Armey of Texas and Representative Billy Tauzin of Louisiana have been debating tax-reform alternatives in front of packed auditoriums across the country on what they are calling the "Scrap the Code Tour." They both hope to turn the public's visceral anger at the IRS into a willingness to replace the existing, complex tax code with something simpler. In Armey's case it's a single flat tax on income; in Tauzin's, an across-the-board national sales tax. But because reinventing the tax code...
...contours of Baltimore's school-funding debate have begun to change. There are still cries for more money, but Baltimore's schools are at last being forced to acknowledge that money alone can't turn a failing system around. Its schools are in the first phase of a major reorganization, the result of a deal struck last spring between the city, the state and Baltimore's federal court that reflects an increasing belief in the power of good management to improve both financial and academic performance. The deal provides the school system with an additional $254 million over the next...