Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long ago, Jeffords was the Republican that the Bush and Reagan White Houses loved to hate. But last week old sins were forgiven. Senate minority leader Robert Dole, sensing he had Clinton cornered for the first time, hurriedly flew to Burlington Wednesday to attend one of Jeffords' quiet, $20- a-head, appetizer-and-Chablis fund raisers that are typical of Vermont's small-town politics. What wasn't typical was that more than a dozen reporters and seven television crews attended too, in the hope of seeing Dole close the deal...
...faculty at Harvard, long a quiet and even invisible constituency, are moving strongly toward greater activism, openness and organization...
...issues of concern to gay, bisexual and lesbian professors, even if they do not involve public protests, can mobilize quiet action like the issue of domestic partnership has, some professors said...
Maybe the next bus ride back won't be so quiet...
After that, all was quiet until Desharnais stepped to the plate in the bottom of the sixth. With a forceful, solid swing, she hit the ball into deep right field and sent two of her teammates across home plate...