Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment, opponents of the amendment, like port-addicted Democratic Senator Robert C. Byrd, can defend their tenuous position only by offering silly one-liners ("It's a quack pill") and obscure metaphors ("It's as poisonous as the poison that Hannibal carried in his ring or Demosthenes carried in his pen"). That is certainly interesting language, but it does not constitute a valid argument against such a necessary bipartisan measure of fiscal discipline...
Deanie Gauthier, who calls herself the Mutant, is in far worse shape. She's a foul-mouthed outcast a couple of years younger than Sam; her response to sexual abuse by her mother's boyfriend is self-abasement in several directions. She shaves her head and wears a nose ring and chains, shrugs at kindness and buys drugs with sex. But she plays ball with amazing ferocity, and she and Sam lead their respective teams to the Maine championships, falling into a sad, touching losers' love affair along...
...Lynah Rink singlehandedly tried to rally its Big Red, a team tectering second-from-the-bottom in the ECAC, with but nine points. A cross-ice pass set up freshman Pierre-Claude Drouin on the edge of the right ring; when he beat Israel, Cornell was within one, 4-3. Credit the Crimson's unheralded fourth line (freshman Jason Karmanos, sophomore Perry Cohagen and Gustafson), though, for digging hard and setting up Gustafson's late goal...
...guards' allegations are at the center of an ongoing University investigation into the security guard unit. A probe last spring cleared security supervisors of all allegations. Earlier this month, James A. Ring, a former FBI agent hired by General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall, began interviewing guards as part of a new probe, which is being conducted under the auspices of Marshall's office...
McCombe said he repeatedly urged Young and Patrick to perform a thorough investigation of the charges, but such an investigation never materialized. He said he is hopeful, but not optimistic, that the new investigation being conducted by Marshall and Ring will solve the alleged problem...