Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hogging the limelight, Perot insists his sole duty in Dallas is to act as host to the visiting luminaries, all of whom he will introduce before they appear at the podium. Furthermore, he no longer appears hell-bent on running for President, and is not going to form an actual third party...
...truth, Tokyo initially knew almost nothing about what had happened in Hiroshima. As General Marshall noted later, "What we did not take into account was that the destruction would be so complete that it would be an appreciable time before the actual facts of the case would get to Tokyo." As Washington waited impatiently for word of surrender, the Japanese Cabinet tried to find out what on earth had happened to Hiroshima. Since the first reports seemed unbelievable, some Japanese leaders wanted desperately not to believe them. Others decided that even if Truman's announcement was true--that Hiroshima...
This week, after months of stealthy preparations, the Speaker plans to take his campaign public, with a speech scheduled for Monday in Cleveland to lay out his sales pitch, though not an actual plan; that will wait until fall. Before Congress breaks for its August recess this week, he intends to prime his troops to deliver the message. It goes like this: Medicare's own trustees say the program will go bankrupt in seven years; the Democrats are too lily-livered to do anything about it; and so it is up to the Republicans to "save Medicare" by clamping down...
...cracks in the concrete. There was great art, drama, writing and scholarship in America before 1965, when the endowments were founded. Dedicated people create ingenious strategies of survival for themselves. But why should they have to? By what meanness, through what smug Philistinism--and, above all, on what actual evidence--do our Jacks-in-office decree that the arts and humanities are beneath the interest of the American people and unworthy of their collective support...
GOEL: Are you computer illiterate? Bennett learns about an attempt to sabotage the powers of the Net, not the actual Net itself. Although, I guess it's not really your fault. This movie is about the Web, a loose network of public information sites, but it isn't the Web. Hollywood has done another injustice and fooled millions of Americans. Anyways, I don't get your whole "sympathize with the bad guy" thing. I was rootin' for Bennett the whole time, and proud of it. Devlin and Gregg are jerks, and I wanna' see them lose. Plain and simple...