Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...donors. Thompson is limited by law in his scope, dogged by Democrats to expand the probe and pressed by his own party's conservatives to confine it. Meanwhile, key Democratic fund raisers, including Charlie Yah Lin Trie and Pauline Kanchanalak, have either fled the country or were abroad to begin with...
While he is still in Europe, Clinton will find telegenic and symbolic sites to begin his next task: persuading the U.S. Senate to ratify the NATO treaty to include the new members. All the other national parliaments involved will have to ratify it too, but the Senate is the key. If it falters, some of the Europeans could drift away. And while the White House expects to win the two-thirds vote it needs in the Senate, it no longer believes rounding up 67 votes will be a simple matter...
...Intel's latest gibberish on chip demand next quarter? Sure you couldn't: important details get explained in exclusive conference calls. No matter how small investors try to level the field, it always ends up tilted. Get ready for another uphill climb. In the coming weeks, companies will begin reporting second-quarter results, and some stocks will react in ways that defy logic. Why? They are being moved by a relatively new Wall Street device, the "whisper number." Trust me. This whisper is more exciting than anything a dream date might pant into your...
...results are starting to show. In September the Mars Global Surveyor, already en route to the planet, will settle into orbit and begin a two-year program of photographing and mapping the terrain below. Over the next eight years, up to eight more ships will follow. As these new probes are heading Marsward, others will be dispatched to places as familiar as the moon and as remote as Pluto. "In the next 10 years," says NASA administrator Daniel Goldin, "we'll be flying by, orbiting, landing, roving and bringing back samples from every critical planetary body in the solar system...
...lose the personal responsibility that makes them possible, or seek to resurrect community spirit via quasi-totalitraian measure that destroy the very liberties that are the ends of our society. How in practice we can strike a balance between the two is as yet unclear to me, but to begin with, liberals must combine a vehement attention to rights with a circumspect view of the needs of civil society. Our unyielding emphasis on individual freedom must somehow come to terms with responsiblities, or we may not make it to the next dawn's early light...