Posts Tagged ‘nearly-three’

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi is dead

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi dies at home in Tripoli, nearly three years after he was controversially freed from a Scottish prison.

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Family lobbies for soldier to be included in Taliban prisoner swap

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

The parents of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, an American captured by the Taliban nearly three years ago, have made an emotional appeal for the Obama administration to make a deal with the insurgents to release him in exchange for Afghan prisoners being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Read full article > >

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Family lobbies for soldier to be included in Taliban prisoner swap

Family lobbies for soldier to be included in Taliban prisoner swap

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

The parents of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, an American captured by the Taliban nearly three years ago, have made an emotional appeal for the Obama administration to make a deal with the insurgents to release him in exchange for Afghan prisoners being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Read full article > >

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Michelle Obama’s Mission: Energizing the Campaign

Friday, November 18th, 2011

After nearly three years of limiting her time in the public sphere, Michelle Obama is suddenly ubiquitous as motivator in chief.

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Michelle Obama’s Mission: Energizing the Campaign

Downtown Bethesda braces for 3 years of tighter parking and more traffic

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

The often maddening hunt for parking in Bethesda’s restaurant and shopping district is about to get even worse for nearly three years when a key street and two major parking lots soon close for high-rise and underground construction projects. The construction on two corners of Woodmont and Bethesda avenues — the epicenter of one of Montgomery County’s “downtowns” — will close two parking lots that provide nearly 300 metered spaces. The lots across from Barnes & Noble in Bethesda Row are heavily used by shoppers, diners and moviegoers, as well as cyclists and runners headed for the adjacent Capital Crescent Trail . Read full article > >

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Solace in the Stadium as Baseball Resumes in Japan

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Delayed nearly three weeks by earthquake repairs, baseball’s opening day has been infused with poignant meaning.

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Solace in the Stadium as Baseball Resumes in Japan

House ethics panel backs censure of Rangel

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Despite an impassioned, tearful apology and a plea for leniency, Rep. Charles B. Rangel on Thursday became the first House member in nearly three decades to be recommended for censure.

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Surprise Interest Rate Move by China Roils Markets

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

China’s Central Bank said it would raise interest rates for the first time in nearly three years, apparently in the hopes of dampening inflation and cooling off the hot property market.

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Surprise Interest Rate Move by China Roils Markets