Word: present
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...members present at the rally also worked to disassociate themselves from the stereotype of ivory-tower liberals. "Strategically, we want to show that this isn't some passing fad of the children of privilege. This is an issue of justice," said Cicchino...
Through this sort of excavation, Heaney argues that the outer contours of the present landscape are simply the surface form of an inner, accumulated past. It is an appropriate theme for a poet whose homeland continues to suffer from deep-rooted and ancient political conflict...
...continue to use oil at the present rate--especially if the rest of the world begins to approach America's prodigious energy consumption--the wells will soon run dry. It's time to get serious about investing in alternative energy resources, especially renewable ones...
...last minutes of his speech, Angarita focussed on the drug trafficking and guerilla warfare in Colombia. A member of the Colombian military present at the speech raised several questions regarding these subjects and debated with Angarita in Spanish for about 30 minutes...
Filmmaker Ken Burns, director of acclaimed documentaries on Huey Long and the Brooklyn Bridge, has collected what seems like every visual scrap from the period: photographs, paintings, newspaper clippings, as well as present-day footage of key battle sites. To them he has wedded excerpts from contemporary diaries, letters and speeches, read by people as diverse as Jason Robards, Jody Powell and George Plimpton. A spare but evocative narration by David McCullough is supplemented by commentary from historian Shelby Foote and others. The result is not just fine history but a pensive epic about the nation's great catastrophe...