Word: ued
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next day Clinton produced Aristide before cameras in the White House to allay some of the fears that the Haitian's reputation as an anti-U.S. leftist and rabble-rousing demagogue have stirred. Speaking in careful English -- his native language is Creole French -- the slightly built Roman Catholic priest declared, "We say no to retaliation, no to vengeance." To dispel any thought that the U.S. might be installing by force a new President-for-life, Aristide pledged to abide by his country's constitution and yield his office to an elected successor in February 1996, when his five-year...
...midnight on Sept. 11, he stole a single-engine plane from an airport north of Baltimore headed south to Washington, flew over the National Zoological Park and down to the Mall, probably using the Washington Monument as a beacon. As he neared the famed obelisk, he banked a tight U-turn over the Ellipse, came in low over the White House South Lawn, clipped a hedge, skidded across the green lawn that girds the South Portico and crashed into a wall two stories below the presidential bedroom. Corder was killed on impact...
Admissions officers claim that they wanted to make their message to prospective Harvard students more complete. In addition, the entire notion of Harvard as Diversity U. had gotten just a wee bit tired. "It had gotten to be an unbelievable cliche," says Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70. "We are sick to death of that phrase...
...were working on felling some of the biggest trees in the record books, like Matt Williams, Frank Thomas and Tony Gwynn, the cancellation must have come as a cruel irony. Their chance at putting their names u on the mantle above most of their colleagues was destroyed by their willingness to get right in line behind negotiator Donald Fehr. These are the men that the owners are trying to fit for a salary cap, but they are the players who keep the game alive...
...issues are complex in Washington, D.C.," Rowe says. "Funding for everybody is u...