Word: blip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reasons that lie behind Boorda's suicide will probably never be understood. Could it be that this former enlisted man still felt insecure in his accomplishments, next to the Annapolis graduates who surrounded him? "This would have been a blip on the screen for me," said Duane Bushey, who worked with Boorda from 1988 to '92 as the Navy's master chief petty officer. "I think it would be humiliating for him. But even if it came out that he really didn't deserve them, I think the average sailor would say, 'Yeah, but look at what...
Clinton's announcement was a minor blip on the screen in China, says TIME's Mia Turner in Beijing, because the Chinese have long expected to be granted MFN status. At a Foreign Ministry Press briefing on Tuesday, the Chinese official line was simply that the United States had made a wise decision. But there is still considerable dissatisfaction with the U.S. in Beijing. Trade officials there are are angry that the MFN status has only been renewed for one year, and are still upset over last week's trade sanctions. "The Chinese are reacting very strongly to the sanctions...
...many years, the tobacco industry shared its wealth fairly evenly between Democrats and Republicans. Not anymore. Tobacco has chosen sides in a spectacular way. Without apology, it is now one of the biggest G.O.P. benefactors, and only a blip for the Democrats. The reason, a tobacco lobbyist says, is Bill Clinton. The President tried to tax tobacco to fund his health-care plan, and is backing increased authority by the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco...
Belarus claims that information never reached officials at the military base, 100 miles southwest of Minsk, where a blip produced by Fraenckel and Stuart-Jervis' balloon suddenly appeared on radar screens, dangerously close to one of several strategic missile bases that dot the area. Belarussian officials sent two Mi-24 helicopter gunships into the air to investigate. One of the choppers found the balloon, approached within 110 yards and attempted, without success, to establish radio contact. (Race organizers suspect that the pilots were unable to respond because their batteries had gone dead during the three-day flight...
...greatly exaggerated. After three straight monthly drops in GDP, new reports out of Washington show increases in retail sales and industrial production, with no rise in inflation. The downturn in indicators, saysTIME's Bill McWhirter, were only an aberration rather than a trend. "April was a just a blip. What happened was a confluence of bad news, topped by a $20 billion retroactive tax bill. About 90 percent of the disposable income in the country is in the hands of people making over $60,000 a year. These people, whose purchases really drive the economy, all got hit with this...