Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Further protests have been scheduled, including a vigil tomorrow from 3 to 5 p.m. in MIT's main lobby...
Since then, both sides have spent millions on TV and newspaper ads, mass mailings, brochures and demonstrations. Two weeks ago, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops held a prayer vigil in Washington; the group has sent out 8 million postcards for people to pass on to their Representatives. Meanwhile, the Child Protection Fund last week unveiled its own TV campaign, including an ad in which a woman asks, "What does it say about President Clinton that he would allow this to happen...
With only two weather satellites keeping vigil over the U.S., GOES-8's picture-snapping ability becomes more important than ever to meteorologists trying to track a hurricane. Goddard's capacity to enhance those images may become equally important in encouraging locals to get out of a storm's path...
...media glare as the man whom FBI officials had identified as a suspect in the bombing. He sat on the steps outside the modest Atlanta apartment he shares with his mother and his dog while FBI agents searched the premises for evidence. Nearby, the guardians of the press kept vigil on the Rush Limbaugh weigh-alike with the forlorn white mustache. Technically Jewell has not been charged and is only a suspect. But tabloid journalism's hope for heroes had given way to its need for villains. SAINT OR SAVAGE?, the New York Post's front page mused. The answer...
...world did not let them go quietly. The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, denounced the destruction as a "prenatal massacre"; protesters held a vigil outside Westminster Cathedral before the event and memorial services afterward; and people across Europe offered to "adopt" the frozen cells to preserve them. Childless couples bitterly lamented that they would gladly have taken the embryos for themselves. And some clinic workers contemplated going to jail rather than carry out the law, though they yielded...