Word: ushered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Intrigued by Sandel's words, Clinton asked the White House usher for a pen so he could take notes on the back of his menu...
...gone. A generation after Stokes' breakthrough, black mayors are no longer a novelty, and the high hopes that their arrival would usher in a new era of urban revival have long since faded. Hobbled by age, ill health and ! frustration, three of the longest-serving black mayors -- L.A.'s Tom Bradley, Detroit's Coleman Young and Atlanta's Maynard Jackson -- have declined to seek re-election. Several cities where black mayors once reigned -- Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles -- have reverted to white control, and New York City may be about to join them. But the big turnover at city hall...
...Beavis and Butthead" isn't going to usher civilization back to a new Dark Age, and it isn't going to corrupt the young. The young are corrupted already, and they know...
...elections will not usher in a ready-formed New South Africa. Even as most South Africans delight in the prospect of free elections, they are beginning to sense that the immediate future holds much hardship and that the three years of turmoil following De Klerk's decision to dismantle apartheid and release Mandela is a taste of things to come. "The pattern has already been set," warns Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party. "It is going to be turbulent, no matter who is at the helm...
...disarmingly than in the 21st work of the wistful comedist A.R. Gurney, whose best previous plays (Sweet Sue, Love Letters) also centered on the disruptive consequences of love unpursued. Gurney is often pegged as an elegist for the waning Wasp. In Later Life he makes great efforts to usher in characters outside that stereotype. They are Irish, Jewish, Texan and techno-nerd; one woman is a lesbian, one man gay, and these two fully transcend sketch comedy to offer poignant glimpses of self-destructive lives. Predictably, however, the central figure is a Wasp, and an uptight one at that...