Word: ushered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Klein thinks Clinton's book will usher in "a brief return to the noxious '90s, a brouhaha for which not many people are nostalgic." This is a clear example of a writer's getting carried away by his powers of alliteration. Everybody I know is nostalgic for the '90s, but maybe people like us, who come from the L.A. ghetto, don't count. When Bill Clinton dies, the streets of Washington will be thronged with weeping, praying mourners. But they won't be like the people who watched Reagan's funeral procession. Many of Clinton's mourners will be people...
...rage at our former President - and who spent much of the '90s spreading vicious rumors about him - should follow Clinton's lead and seek counseling as well. Surely they have demons of their own to overcome. Quentin Dunne Sherman Oaks, California, U.S. Joe Klein thinks Clinton's book will usher in "a brief return to the noxious '90s, a brouhaha for which not many people are nostalgic." This is a clear example of a writer getting carried away by his powers of alliteration. Everybody I know is nostalgic for the '90s, but maybe people like us, who come from...
...unrealistic principles, our present-day actions violate some of them too. There isn't much about today's America that its visionary third President wouldn't find troubling, in need of improvement or just plain horrifying. The peaceful republic that Jefferson wished for and did what he could to usher into being--a collection of independent gentleman farmers, moderately prosperous and highly educated, living under a thrifty, modest government that was legally bound not to meddle in their affairs, be they commercial, domestic or religious, and which staunchly resisted foreign "entanglements"--seems now like a large-scale version of Monticello...
...only to punish the perpetrators but also to puncture conspiracy theories that had already begun to proliferate. The trial would bring "closure," he promised. So far, it hasn't. In the past six months, one witness has been gunned down and another received a threat from a court usher. In a brazen act of intimidation, six former Red Berets, sporting their unit's snarling wolf insignia, sat in the courtroom while a colleague tried to testify. Last week, some 50 men wearing T shirts featuring a red rose, Lukovic's trademark tattoo, came to the courtroom to watch their...
...DIED. ANTONIO SOUSA FRANCO, 61, leading Socialist candidate for Sunday's European Parliament election; of a heart attack suffered while campaigning; in Matosinhos, Portugal. As Portugal's Finance Minister, Sousa Franco helped usher in the nation's adoption of the euro...