Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the century he almost spanned, Olivier the actor displayed turbulent energy, embraced awesome excess; his genius and his folly fed each other spectacularly. Said Albert Finney, who in 1959 understudied Olivier as Coriolanus: "He makes the climaxes higher, and he makes the depths of it lower, than you feel is possible in the text...
...exported goods. But most economists believe that Menem's most important task will be to privatize Argentina's inefficient state-owned monopolies, which are losing $4 billion annually. Menem may get the power to do so if the Argentine Congress approves a new emergency law that would give him almost unlimited control over the nationalized companies. But Menem has so far offered no details about his privatization drive. Those particulars are not likely to come soon. On Friday, only six days after joining Menem's Cabinet, Economic Minister Miguel Roig died of a heart attack. His replacement, businessman Nestor Rapanelli...
...talks. He walks. He does push-ups. He sweats. And he is almost inhumanly brave. Well, strike the almost. Manny is a robot, though with a body temperature of 98.6 0 F and a chest that heaves with each "breath," he is astonishingly lifelike. Come October, he will wade into clouds of nerve gas, which his owner, the U.S. Army, would never dare subject a real soldier to. Manny's mission, at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, will be to test protective clothing -- for example, to determine whether walking, bending or sweating might cause the clothing...
...though fellow seamen insist it did not seem to impair his performance, Hazelwood began to drink heavily on board, in violation of company rules. Moreover, he was not discreet about his growing problem, and invited fellow crew members to join him. "It was almost like Joe was trying to get caught," says a fellow seaman who remains a close friend. "He'd close his door, but everyone knew what went on. He always said that everything was fine, but then why was he drinking? The guy was begging for help, but he kept it all inside...
...sounds like a noble goal. But what reasons does the president give for launching the nation on a mission that will almost certainly take decades to complete, at a cost of billions of dollars...