Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Floating's strongest moments come in the opening and closing of the novel. Troy reaches out to capture her audience early, sending the reader quickly backward through layers of time and shifting smoothly and non-sequentially from one character to the next until the reader has become deeply familiar with each...
...depends on how carefully you read the reports. Taken together, the studies do, after all, confirm that taking Redux or fenfluramine (whether alone or in combination with phentermine as part of the wildly popular fen/phen regimen) can trigger an abnormal thickening of the heart valves, which may cause a backward flow and pooling of blood. Cardiologists pay special attention to such "leaky valves" because they are particularly vulnerable to infection, may predispose you to congestive heart failure or may signal the need for surgery...
...developing world. To replenish the treasury, he asked the rich to pawn their jewelry overseas and bring the money back to Malaysia. To cut a huge foreign bill for food, he asked people to plant vegetables in their front yards. Last week Mahathir took the bold step backward of withdrawing Malaysia from the global economy, sealing off its currency from outside trade and sacking the pro-market Finance Minister. Absurdly, he also found time to attempt a world record by leading 1,998 Malaysian-made cars in the world's longest convoy...
...moment was a chance to gaze backward, to 1961, to 1927, to the baseball heroes of happier times. And the game paused, with a leisurely euphoria, as fans of baseball and America took a good long look. But as McGwire hugged Sammy Sosa, lifting the Chicago Cub toward the heavens as fireworks went off above their heads, we were reminded: The future waits. Neither the home run race nor the 1998 season is over yet, and history is not yet done being made...
...aides in the White House could not fathom the possibility that Hillary did not know much more than the story line of the weekend allowed. "That doesn't seem real to me," said one. "They have no secrets," argued another. "They know each other. They know each other backward and forward." She had to profess ignorance, in this view, because the alternative to being a trusting sucker was being a cold-blooded liar. A longtime Democratic official, who has never been in Clinton's camp, watched the mopping-up operation and marveled at the way the Clintons had used their...