Word: voided
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that aims at people's hearts and focuses on spiritual renewal is better at turning troubled lives around, and there's some evidence for that. "No matter how much counseling, no matter how much social work we put into someone, until we give them something spiritual to fill that void, they won't really change," says the Rev. Ralph E. Williamson, a minister on the staff of the Mecklenburg County, N.C., department of social services with 23 years' experience in the field. "I always tell people that I can't bring salvation through the department of social services." In fact...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: He's been walking on air in the five days since the Teamster's victory over UPS. But Ron Carey was brought down to earth with a bang today when a federal official declared his 1996 re-election null and void over alleged campaign finance abuses...
...Mike Tester. For Nicole and Carter, it was a reunion of sorts. For two weeks, Carter had been holed up in a juvenile-detention center for taking the truck of his mother's live-in boyfriend, among other things. Nicole had written him every day and filled the void of his absence by spending days with his mother. Carter upped the ante by escaping the juvenile center and hiding out at friends' homes to be with Nicole. "I was excited because Mike was out and I wanted to help him," she says...
...Foster has always been an actress who gives intelligence a good name, and she's very attractive here as a stubbornly obsessive scientist, convinced there are brainy beings out there in deep space trying to get in touch with us, then triumphantly picking up their mysterious signals from the void...
...covering the sphere can get pricey. In 1993, before NASA's Mars Observer spacecraft had even entered orbit around the planet, it blew an aneurysm in a fuel line and spun off into the void, taking nearly $1 billion of NASA funding with it. The twin Viking spacecraft, which accomplished their missions successfully, landing on Mars in 1976, nonetheless set taxpayers back about $3 billion...