Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...bill would restore the power of the city Licensing Commission to set occupancy limits at establisments which serve alcohol. The City Council passed the measure earlier this fall, and sent it along to the State House for final approval...
...home put up for sale. But Pons is not totally out of touch: last week he requested a one-year sabbatical by having his lawyer send a fax to the university. If he ever surfaces, he will no doubt be able to explain what he has been doing and set suspicious minds to rest...
...fill the empty spaces. The average American metropolitan area faces a 20% office vacancy rate. The average is closer to 30% in some cities, including New Haven, Conn.; Phoenix; Dallas; and San Antonio. Commercial- mortgage delinquencies are running 25% ahead of last year and are fast approaching the record set...
Most grandparents, however, dig in and make the best of a difficult situation. Two years ago, after 2 1/2-year-old Mitchell was left in their care, Shirley and Charles Gates of West Waynesville, N.C., reluctantly set aside their plans to buy a camper and spend their retirement hunting and fishing. "When we first got the baby," says Shirley, "it was really hard on me and Paw-paw." They remain angry at their daughter, who, Shirley says, pays no support and rarely visits. But the Gateses have found their grandson a constant joy and challenge. "It's been worth it," says Shirley...
...Neither Ash nor LaMotte existed, but Byatt creates excerpts from their imaginary poems and journals that bring them vibrantly alive.) Roland stumbles across a tantalizing fragment of evidence that the respectably married Ash and the spinster LaMotte may have had an illicit affair; such an event, if proved, would set the scholarly world on its ear. Before long, he and Maud join forces to track down the truth...