Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Christofferson said, however, that actual candidates in the 1996 elections (excluding the presidential candidates) would be at the event as well as an undisclosed list of big-name speakers...
...ever dared hope--almost 60%, from $290 billion in fiscal 1992 to an expected $116 billion this fiscal year. Unemployment dropped from 7% at the start of Clinton's term to 5.4% at latest count. The President pledged during the 1992 campaign to create 8 million new jobs; the actual total is more than 10 million. Inflation has stayed under 3% for four straight years, the longest period of stability in three decades...
...speechwriters were dumbstruck by the Bob Dole that emerged at the Republican Convention. Here was a man who had never in his life successfully mated subject to verb rolling out sonorous subclauses! When the speechwriters realized that the brilliant acceptance speech had been crafted by novelist Mark Helprin, an actual writer of poetical prose, they began to search their brains for suitable ghostwriters for Clinton: Stephen King, perhaps, on welfare reform, Michael Crichton to explain the health system...
...government was not prepared to say who they were, or even if they had been officially arrested. "There is no confirmation of anything yet," says TIME's Mark Thompson. "The Saudis have taken people into custody in this investigation before. We should not jump to conclusions until an actual arrest is made." If the Saudis do make arrests, adds Thompson, the U.S. can be sure it will take an active part in the questioning. Four terrorists convicted of a car bombing last November were executed before U.S. officials could talk to them. "The Saudis won't do that this time...
...about the expected 17 percent increase in the teenage population over the next ten years. Since the majority of violent crimes are committed by young men, the rise is a potential demographic time bomb. "It is too early to tell if the decline is merely a blip, or an actual trend," says TIME's Elaine Rivera. "But it is consistent with a general decline in crime in cities across the country. The real question is whether federal, state, and city governments will continue long term youth programs shown to be helpful in addressing the problems young people have and combating...