Word: bore
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Billboard slogans proclaimed, A MORE OPEN CHINA AWAITS THE 2000 OLYMPICS. Colored flags flanked thoroughfares, and taxis bore BEIJING 2000 stickers. To reduce pollution, some areas were forbidden to burn coal. All this and more went into Beijing's giant pitch to the International Olympic Committee for the Games in the year 2000. A decision is due in September...
...grand competition for Diana's hand begins--much to the dismay of the princess, who wants to find a mate on her own. Who cares about big palaces and yachts if your husband is a terrible bore...
...good ole boy who once presided over the obstreperous hired guns at the University of Miami (Dallas' Jimmy Johnson)? Can the American Football Conference ever win another Super Bowl, having lost 10 of the past 11 to the National Football Conference? Will the half-time show be a total bore, Michael Jackson's participation notwithstanding? The correct answers are maybe, maybe and absolutely...
...least 150 killings, he was convicted in absentia in 1987 of murder and drug trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Some sources suggested he had undergone plastic surgery to change his appearance, but apart from grayer hair and a more pronounced paunch, the man captured last week bore an unmistakable likeness to an FBI computer-generated drawing based on the last known photograph of Riina, from...
...most respects, Clinton has nothing on his predecessors in this regard. Backing off on his promise to cut the White House staff 25% (which he appears to be doing), or asserting his highest regard for Washington's public schools while enrolling his daughter in a private academy, is small-bore stuff -- par for the course and unremarkable. But Clinton is breaking new ground when it comes to the deficit. The President-elect's insistence that the latest debt numbers are news to him -- that he is a victim whose best intentions may fall before a new reality -- is chutzpah writ...