Word: assuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, addressing an exuberant audience at the Sheraton Wayfarer in Bedford, assured his supporters that he was committed to continuing his campaign.
More important for these shows is the "great get": that exclusive interview with the tabloid-press star of the week, from Marla Maples to Mike Tyson (rest assured, he'll turn up on one show or another once his rape trial is over). These shows compete fiercely for such interviews...
By the hundreds, Haitian boat people in search of asylum in the U.S. were delivered by Coast Guard cutters back to Port-au-Prince. Each was fingerprinted and photographed by local immigration officers. Just routine procedure, police assured scores of foreign journalists. But the swiftness with which the returnees melted...
Roughly half of this novel, Robert Stone's fifth, is occupied with putting together the complicated and elaborate house of cards that will spectacularly blow apart during the second half. In less assured hands, such a long swatch of narrative exposition might seem cumbersome, even a little tedious. Not so...
The silicone breast-implant scandal may, however, change that relationship. Anderson's own trust in the system was shattered on Dec. 12, when he sat down and read scores of Dow Corning documents, including 17 internal memos dating as far back as the mid-1970s, about silicone-gel breast implants...