Word: although
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Although a 1-0 lead is hardly insurmountable--though lately it has been for opponents of the Big Red--the effect of the goal on Harvard's confidence was far more debilitating...
Jesse died on Sept. 17 in Philadelphia, just months after his father told him he was a hero and put him on a plane to the university. He could be the first patient to die because of gene therapy, although the only thing certain is that he died of multiple organ failure. Doctors immediately began an internal analysis. "I consider this trial over," says Dr. James Wilson, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Human Gene Therapy...
...Bradley's plan is a bold one, there's another B word it also brings to mind: blurry. To begin with, although the former Senator says he's still working on the fine print, most experts, including some who advised Bradley, agree that his $65 billion-a-year cost estimate is too low. Worse, he expects to use the projected budget surplus to pay for it all but has no fallback plan in the event that the surplus does not materialize. Bradley also overpromises. The subsidies he would provide to the poor in many cases won't be enough...
...Absolving Suharto may prove to be the final nail in the coffin of Habibie?s own presidential aspirations. Although the country?s traditional elites may be looking for a way to keep out opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri, being seen to do a Gerald Ford on his old boss won?t endear Habibie to a restive public that widely suspects Suharto got rich at their expense for decades. After all, Suharto and his family are a regular fixture on Forbes magazine?s lists of the world?s richest people ? and that?s quite an achievement for a man from an impoverished...
...that hasn't stopped her saga from being documented and updated almost hourly on CNN, MSNBC et al since it first broke in June. There has been a distinct lack of specifics in the reporting: At this point, it?s not known for certain whether Nielsen actually has cancer, although the urgency surrounding the rescue mission has led some to expect the worst...