Word: weren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene, and the fires have been put out. Apart from the four-man crew of the Fine Air cargo plane, all of whom died, only four injuries have been reported on the ground. Considering that the crash took place on a busy Miami thoroughfare, it is extremely lucky there weren't more casualties...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As if the wrath of Rudy and a terrorist bomb plot weren't creating enough heat for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, a federal advisory panel now wants to abolish the troubled agency, dividing its duties between the State and Justice departments. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani continues to escalate his feud with the INS over its release of a Palestinian asylum-seeker who last week was charged with plotting a terrorist bombing in Brooklyn. Police sources say evidence includes a note threatening a series of attacks on American and Jewish interests. Meanwhile, Congress is embracing...
What is left for our poor Mr. Peepers as a symbol of manly pride? The scenes would seem surreal if they weren't already so familiar. An investment banker braves the brutal terrain of Park Avenue in a vehicle built for climbing sand dunes under enemy fire. A claims adjuster clambers aboard a car designed to haul caribou carcasses, so he can pick up his wife's fuchsias at the suburban garden center. Did the old man flip his jeep on Omaha Beach? Then his son will have a Jeep too, to drop off the kids at the multiplex. Vroom...
...rockers like George Michael and clothes that were just as loud, earned the designer all the publicity they were meant to garner. As a result, he hastened the transformation of fashion from a rarefied interest of the elite into a object of bottomless mass-cultural fascination. Remember, there weren't always MTV style awards or accountants who can identify the faces in Harper's Bazaar or makeup artists with best-selling coffee-table books. "Versace," notes Vogue's European editor-at-large Hamish Bowles, "moved fashion into the public domain in the most strident...
...There was a strong sense that things were happening quickly and there were many people with strong views about the settlement from a tort law perspective that weren't being heard," he said...