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Since October, more than 100,000 Russian troops have inched through Chechnya, leveling villages with low-precision artillery and dumb bombs.
But, for some reason, when she migrated from music to movies, first for the Phoenix , then briefly for Newsweek , and since 1977 for the Times , she seems gradually to have inched away from her personal reactions.
As she raised their three daughters and moved from Washington to Long Island and back in the service of her husband's rather lackluster career in journalism, Albright inched her way toward a Ph.D. under Columbia University Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Chatterbox narrowed this gap to eight percentage points by eliminating 1987-8 and 1992 from both men's Senate scores (again, because Gore had absences presumably related to the presidential races): Gore shot up to 82 percent , while Bradley inched up to 90 percent .
But when I approached the monsteralone--my other self was having none of this action--what I found when the window inched downwas reality: a couple with a baby asleep between them: country peoplewho still stop for anyone in trouble,although they were wary.