Word: biding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tackling such genuinely globe-girdling issues as energy supplies, counterterrorism, environmental decay and drug trafficking, as well as disease control-jobs no single country can manage. Says Eban: "In the end, the idea of world community is going to succeed. Therefore, the U.N. should dig in its heels and bide its time. The idea of living without a unitary framework of relations, now of all times, is just too crazy." History today may find the luminous San Francisco conference foolish, but it could yet decide: no, crazy-brave...
...American soldiers still stationed in Haiti have come to occupy two radically different worlds. The first is the world of Port-au-Prince, which belongs to conventional soldiers who patrol the streets, keep the peace and bide their time until they are scheduled to return home. The second world belongs to the 1,200 men of the Special Forces who, since the occupation began, have overseen rural Haiti. Taking on the roles of sheriff, prosecutor, judge, plumber, mayor and ghostbuster, these commandos are often the only glue holding together the 5 million Haitians who live outside the capital...
...proposal in his last years in office. At the time Kennedy rejected that plan because it didn't go far enough to insure all Americans. Dumb move, perhaps. But Kennedy didn't compromise Later, he even gave up the chance to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee. He wanted to bide his time on the CLHR to make sure the atmosphere was right when health care came around again...
...scenario has Powell running not in 1996 but in 2000, against Al Gore for the Democratic nomination. Maybe. The general is certainly ambitious enough to see himself as Commander in Chief, but he has no taste for fund raising or buttering up special interests. At 57 he can bide his time -- while giving speeches for as much as $60,000 each...
...Dinosaur, King Kong (and its Universal theme-park spin-off, Kongfrontation), The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Godzilla, Bringing Up Baby -- this one sometimes creaks when it's not playing with the beasties. For the first half-hour -- the preshow before the thrill ride -- you are advised to bide your time. Screenwriter David Koepp's subplot, in which a paleontologist (Sam Neill) is force-fed lessons in fatherhood by his paleobotanist girlfriend (Laura Dern), is laid on with a trowel. And the plot occasionally beggars belief. If you were up a huge tree and a van were teetering...