Word: act
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curtain goes up on a race that may just be beginning, or may already be in its last act. "If he does well, it's his. If he doesn't, he could fall so fast. You could have him on the cover in June--and never hear from him again," says Steve Merksamer, a top California strategist who is working for Forbes. "You wonder if they are building a schoolhouse here out of straw. It's big and shiny, built in 90 days, but the contractor put it together in a way that when the first stiff wind comes...
...appeal is easy enough to understand. Audiences love child prodigies, and record-company executives love them even more--especially when they act like ordinary kids, not prematurely serious artist-nerds. That's Church all over: a cheerful talk-show guest, she admits to being a fan of Puff Daddy's and Celine Dion's. Even better, she has the kind of I'm-no-snob demeanor that goes over spectacularly well in class-obsessed Britain, where artists who have (or can simulate) the common touch can count on being boosted by the down-market tabloids. That too is Church...
...stocks without the central bank?s actually having to do anything. Now, there are only two reasons for the Fed to raise rates at its June 29 meeting ?- to loosen up labor markets or simply to bare its teeth ?- and neither seems compelling enough for Alan & the Gang to act before the next meeting, in August. The corral is open again. Do the bulls remember...
...This is the latest in a string of discoveries that indicate you can create chemicals that can act like estrogen in some parts of the body and as anti-estrogens in other parts of the body," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. In the latest study, for example, the researchers found that raloxifene fits into the body?s estrogen receptors in such a way as to both increase bone density and block breast cancer. There are apparent side effects to raloxifene, however, such as an increased risk of blood clots. And there are also side effects to the other well...
...cope and deal with the thousands of visitors -- perhaps as many as 40,000 -- who will come down with religious delusions when some 4 million Christian pilgrims start converging on the Holy Land for the year 2000 celebrations. The syndrome, in which visitors imagine they are biblical figures and act out their religious visions, is not uncommon in ordinary years. Authorities fear it could become a major problem when 2000 arrives...