Word: ringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank, a five-term southern Massachusetts representative, has faced a storm of criticism of his 18-month involvement with Stephen L. Gobie, a Washington prostitute. Gobie has said that he operated a prostitution ring out of Frank's Capitol Hill apartment...
Frank admitted paying Gobie for sex and subsequently hiring him as a personal assistant and driver, but he said that he fired Gobie when he learned about the prostitution ring. This firing took place in 1987, shortly before Frank publicly disclosed that...
...said he fired him in 1987 after he learned that Gobie was running a prostitution ring out of Frank's apartment...
...does cause these circles is better than fiction." But with or without government research funding, it may be a while before students of the phantasmagoria come up with a totally convincing explanation. Indeed, some suspect that researchers and the locals may enjoy their novel oddity so much that another ring is more interesting than a conclusive answer...
More is at stake in the logging battle than some spotted owls and old trees. "In wildness is the preservation of the world," wrote Henry David Thoreau in the 19th century. To many people, his words now ring truer than ever...