Word: bottomed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Acknowledging that his Aug. 17 address to the nation was "not contrite enough," he dug a little deeper into himself and came up with this: "I don't think there is a fancy way to say that I have sinned," he said, explaining that he had reached "the rock-bottom truth of where...
...sacrament of penance becomes politically relevant. Clinton performed miserably in his first public ceremonies of repentance, but then last Friday, at the White House prayer breakfast, delivered at last a persuasive peccavi, mea culpa. It was fascinating to watch the President's speech with a window at the bottom of the television screen showing the Dow Jones average moving like an electrocardiogram. The Dow was in losing territory when the Clinton started speaking, and rose steadily into the plus column as he went...
Mike (Matt Damon) is a gifted, honorable, high-stakes poker player trying to leave the game so he can finish law school. Worm (Edward Norton) is a gifted, dishonorable player given to dealing from the bottom of the deck. The mystery of Rounders is why a smart guy risks repute, not to mention life and limb, to help a dumb and self-destructive one. Still, if Rounders lacks the sardonically twisted plots and people of Dahl's best work (Red Rock West, The Last Seduction), it is, like them, well acted and atmospherically arresting. The director fails to fill this...
DIED. JUAN METZGER, 79, food manufacturer credited with bringing culture to millions by putting fruit at the bottom of yogurt; in New York City. In 1959 Metzger became president of the Dannon Co., co-founded by his father, and aggressively marketed the then marginal and somewhat unappetizing product. His efforts to promote yogurt and improve its taste vastly increased consumption and expanded the market...
SOHO was still close to its proper orbit, wobbling at top and bottom and rotating once a minute, too slow to have caused structural damage. Even more encouraging, the geometry of SOHO's orbit was tilting the craft's axis of rotation toward the sun by about a degree a day. That was gradually increasing the amount of sunlight hitting the solar panels. Ground controllers ordered SOHO to store that intermittent flow of energy and recharge its batteries...