Word: impromptue
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...other Council elections, Justin C. Label '97defeated impromptu candidate Paul K. Kim '96 inthe vice presidential election; David S. Goodman'97 defeated Jason E. Schmitt '98 and Kim forsecretary; Brian R. Blais '97 won the spot oftreasurer in an uncontested race...
...interest group has been seen on the Net. In 1993 the Federal Government announced plans to promote the Clipper chip, which would have ensured the government's ability to decipher / messages sent over phone lines by modem. The circulation of an anti-Clipper petition turned into a kind of impromptu online civil-liberties demonstration, boosting the number of signatures from...
...film's love scenes have a disconcerting teen sex-comedy aura, but the actors have no choice but to play them straight. "Impromptu" managed to have a lot more fun with the idea of great art and doomed romance. Plus, it had Hugh Grant...
...passed the Nov. 8 initiative 59% to 41% -- appear to be ignoring the legal injunction and taking enforcement into their own hands. In the past two weeks special Prop 187 hot lines in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fresno and Sacramento have received thousands of calls from distraught victims reporting impromptu acts of discrimination that recalled the vigilante spirit of the old Wild West. Many of the callers were citizens or legal residents, wrongly suspected of being illegal. "No one has the word undocumented tattooed on their forehead," said Juanita Ontiveros of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation. "So people...
...comes home to marry another woman. Yet personal embarrassment is only a starting point in Carried Away. The story extends over many years and contains enough twists, including an accidental beheading, to lead the woman to see her life eventually as "a devouring muddle" full of "sudden holes and impromptu tricks and radiant vanishing consolations...