Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warned, though, that a Saddam II, if it does happen, would be nothing like the original--at least not in the stock market. When the Gulf War began, the U.S. was in the throes of a banking crisis and slipping into recession. Saddam was bent on hanging on to his oil-rich conquest. Stocks were down, and oil prices had briefly doubled to $40 per bbl. There was a lot to fight for. This time around, stocks are high and oil is low. The economy is on a historic roll. And Saddam isn't strong enough to upset...
...telling Netanyahu, "Let's forget about it. We've got a lot of work to do." Netanyahu agreed readily. The President's initiative in defusing the issue improved the atmosphere of the talks. Says a White House adviser: "Given the distractions around here, the extent to which [the President] bent his shoulder to the wheel was stunning...
...there will always be the picture of Reggie White and Gilbert Brown in the fourth quarter, bent over and holding on to their pants, sucking wind like, I don't know, two fat 300+-pound guys...
...visit. "So many people do not even know who the Pope is," says Enrique Lopez Oliva, a professor of religious history at the University of Havana. Is he a President, a businessman? Is Fidel paying him to come? Even many Catholics are ignorant of the papal biography and doctrinal bent. In a country where abortion ends roughly 40% of all pregnancies and copulation begins in early adolescence, Cubans will be shocked by John Paul II's stern views on sex. His reverence for the family will seem odd in a society where illegitimacy is common...
...said she was 10 ft. away. "Shareef, the gun--he was holding his arm with the gun in it," she said in court. "He looked toward me for a few seconds, and I remember thinking he was going to shoot me...I saw that Michael's legs were bent, but he wasn't falling. Shareef was holding him up...I couldn't imagine why he was doing that, and then I realized that he was probably taking his money." Connie ran back into a side door of Port of Call and called 911. Then she went back out into...