Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inning nine, Boston: The Sox take it 6-4, and people begin to flee out of the stadium, hoping to beat the crowds to the subway and parking garages. Lines half a block long for the subway quickly result...
...take the Truman Doctrine, the 50th anniversary of which we celebrate this year. It set the course of American foreign policy for a half-century. It took 18 minutes to deliver. That's about when the average Clinton State of the Union address reaches the "Let me begin by..." stage...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland: Now that the IRA has declared a ceasefire, British and Irish government officials hope to convince Protestant leaders to sit at the bargaining table with Sinn Fein, the IRA's political ally. Talks are set to begin in mid-September, when a six-week verification period intended to test the IRA's commitment to the cease-fire ends. But even if the group keeps its guns under wraps, key pro-British Protestants have said they will not negotiate with Sinn Fein. Protestants from the United Kingdom Unionist Party walked out of the site of the talks...
...talking, tough-gal shtick before--but here she backlights her act with a implicit desperation that gnaws away at one's core. Even her act feels tragic as such: like a dreamy teenager, she rattles off to Mrs. Stilton her favorite movie stars and their birth places, and we begin to think she herself is merely an amalgam of all the brands of scrappy newspaperwoman bravery she's seen on screen...
...Moscow, indicated that the idea of Foale on a "practice run" was a bit presumptuous. "He can do some basic things," she said, "but no official simulations or the actual spacewalk ? none of that's been approved by NASA yet." The twice-delayed repairs are now scheduled to begin July 24, less than two weeks before the Mir's replacement crew, composed of two Russians and a Frenchman, is slated to launch on August 5. Foale, whom the Russians have suggested is not only able but very willing to help, may have convinced his cautious superiors on Earth to give...