Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...words the press would focus on came from ideas rattling around in his head about the spirit of the civil rights movement. Still he delivered them as a wry aside, done with mirrors to simulate depth. "I'm having to become quite an expert in this business of asking for forgiveness," Clinton said. "And if you have a family, an Administration, a Congress and a whole country to ask, you're going to get a lot of practice." He also said, "In these last days, it has come home to me, again, something I first learned as President...
...Banks are tottering and closing, and the Moscow stock market has all but evaporated. The crash has shaken investors and governments around the world. But in Russia, home of the stolid and the depoliticized, the streets are calm and there is no sign of unrest. Russians are nervous and ask one another what is going to happen, but the only visible reaction is at the banks, where the relatively few citizens who trusted other people with their money have formed slow-moving and sometimes unruly lines. For the most part, ordinary people seem not merely restrained but numb...
...stall of the Primadonna Resort casino at 3:47 in the morning. And yet Cash goes for a walk. He says nothing to the security guards. Less than half an hour later, Strohmeyer emerges and tells Cash he has molested and murdered the child. Cash, stunned, does not ask why. According to grand jury testimony obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Cash does venture one question: Had the little girl been aroused? By the time Sherrice Iverson's broken body is found at 5 a.m., stuffed in a toilet bowl, the two teenagers are already on their...
...want to save money and avoid dealing with a Web hosting service, however, one alternative is to get a friend to host your domain. Try at work. If your business is on the Net, ask your system administrator if you could list its servers as the hosts. Since this costs the hosting site nothing--it's strictly a routing and administrative function that allows people to find your site--it's worth a try. My friend Jeff Pulver, who has a T1 line that connects his home to the Internet at 1.5 million bits per second, agreed to host quittner.com...
Take me to your leader. That's the worst possible thing President Clinton could ask when he arrives in Moscow Tuesday, because Russia's political leadership is no closer to filling its power vacuum than it is to resolving the country's economic crisis. The Duma on Monday rejected Viktor Chernomyrdin as prime minister, while Boris Yeltsin has already accepted a lame-duck presidency by agreeing to relinquish many of his executive powers. That leaves the tycoon kingmaker Boris Berezovsky as the most powerful man in Moscow, but the latter-day Rasputin is not on Clinton's itinerary...