Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...industry that used to fight to the death is now flinching, partly because it can't afford more embarrassment just as Congress is approaching a tobacco settlement. In the Senate, Republican John McCain of Arizona, no friend of tobacco, is predicting a ferocious fight. To begin with, the deal is nobody's baby in Washington. "Congress is not inclined to simply embrace an arrangement negotiated by the attorneys general with Big Tobacco in a hotel room," says a Republican aide. Some members of Clinton's circle, including Vice President Al Gore and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala...
...David's suit prevails, he will be placed not with his parents but with the Alameda County family court. "Under the family code, minors have rights," says Hutchins. Of course, parents do too. The question before the judge is where a parent's rights end and a child's begin...
...ever deepening levels, however, Branch's follow-up to his Pulitzer-prizewinning Parting the Waters (1988) is dark and boding--a chronicle of deaths foretold. King no longer holds center stage as he did in the first volume. Challenges to the Georgia preacher's pacifist leadership begin to emerge from Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam and later from its leading apostate, the militant separatist Malcolm X. Malcolm's differences with King were unambiguous and raised legitimate questions, not least of which was the right of self-defense. But the man Branch vividly documents as King's most insidious enemy...
Byrne says it is a hectic rush to begin printing at 5 a.m. and then to run the presses a second time 40 minutes later. The crunch is compounded by the fact that the quantity of printing has increased since The Crimson went free this year...
...decade, computer technology had taken leaps forward, and the writing terminals were on their last legs. A building-wide renovation in 1991 provided the opportunity to begin anew...