Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ghali's chances of winning another term as U.N. Secretary General are receding. France, China and Russia, members of the powerful Security Council, strongly support Boutros-Ghali, but the U.S. confirmed Thursday that it would use its Council veto if the Egyptian were re-elected. Seeking to soften the blow, the Clinton Administration had offered Boutros-Ghali a one-year extension of his term. The Secretretary General turned it down. "The Clinton Administration feels that Boutros-Ghali has not done a good job reorganizing and streamlining the organization," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. "He has proved...
...creeping devastation sweeping past their car windows. Irrigated fields are still green, overshadowing the brown, crisping lands between and around them. Thanks to lessons learned in the 1930s, farm acreage has long been tilled and cultivated with an eye to soil conservation, to making fields less likely to blow away; the contemporary Dust Bowl is not as dusty as its famous predecessor...
...loan as a private cookie jar, dipping into it for bogus loans to bankroll their many business schemes. Clinton wasn't a defendant in the case (merely a witness for the defense), and most jurors said they believed his testimony but found it tangential. Nevertheless their verdict was a blow to the White House...
...with just over four minutes remaining, Harvard turned a close game into a blow-out with a combination of airballs, errant passes and fouls...
...ahead of time," TIME's Joseph Szczesny says. "But Chrysler felt nothing was wrong with these cars and wanted to establish a precedent. The company does not want to be subject to an overly restrictive interpretation of the rules." The motive is also financial. "It would be a major blow, both in terms of public relations and the company's financial picture, if Chrysler loses the case," Szczesny says. "The recall would require a pretty expensive fix, which is one of the reasons why the company wants to avoid it if possible...