Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...days ago, I went to my second protest, this time in Harvard Yard. Just like the first time, I came upon it by chance, hearing the speeches reverberate through my Sever Hall classroom. I hadn't paid much attention to the posters publicizing the protest, even though I had decided that I oppose using war as an instrument of our Gulf policy; it was the end of the semester, and I was distracted...
...could have imagined, in so smugly prosperous a decade, that shantytowns would become tourist attractions? Until the mayor evicted them last summer, homeless people in San Francisco drew busloads of photo-snapping foreign tourists to their refugee camp in front of city hall. There, the visitors found a second city of cardboard condos, clogged with the traffic of shopping carts through makeshift living rooms, outfitted with easy chairs and dresser drawers. The waterless fountain steamed with stale urine; a sun-scorched lawn sprouted cigarette butts...
...Nationwide, anywhere from one-half to two-thirds are either substance abusers, mentally ill or both. Up to a quarter have been in jail. With such a great range of needs, it was all but impossible to cook up a comprehensive national policy that would fit into a 10-second sound bite...
...second time in seven years, a financial downdraft swept Continental Airlines into bankruptcy court last week. Faced with rising fuel costs and $2.2 billion of debt incurred under Frank Lorenzo, the airline's expansion- minded former boss, Continental filed for protection while it prepares a repayment plan. "We were just running out of cash," said chairman Hollis Harris, who vowed to maintain the airline's full schedule of flights...
...ants over the Hartsville, S.C., neighborhood, slapping paint, hammering walls, shingling roofs, shoring up porches. By day's end, Ketter's house, like 37 others in town, had been delivered from ruin. "I didn't know something like this could happen," marveled Ketter, 34, who is pregnant with her second child. "This will make all the difference in my life...