Word: boundingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press gallery moments later that the man who has recently seemed so politically out of synch feels blessed to have been in just the right place at the right time. Even his political mentor, President Clinton, admired the exquisite timing of his move. Aboard Air Force One bound for Colorado, where he was scheduled to comfort the families of the Littleton shooting victims on the one-month anniversary of the tragedy, he rose halfway out of his seat and pumped his fist. "That's great," he said, pausing for a moment to let the political significance sink...
...country's top resort destination and, for decades, have virtually monopolized it. Now Edgar Bronfman's besieged company has spent five years and $2.5 billion (on top of a previous billion or so for its Universal Studios Florida, or U.S.F., park, which opened in 1990) to get Orlando-bound kids to think "Universal." Though visitors have been filtering in since March, this week marks the official opening of Islands of Adventure, or I.O.A., and an adjacent area, City Walk, with shops, restaurants and lots of singalong. The expanded park area, called Universal Studios Escape, has enlisted Steven Spielberg...
Berkowitz, whose most recent book is Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism, leaves Harvard bound for a professorship at George Mason University Law School in Arlington...
...India's turn. Politically, the last thing either India or Pakistan can afford to do is to show weakness in relation to the other. So New Delhi is now bound to up the ante after Pakistan Thursday downed an Indian MiG-27 and claimed to have also hit an Indian MiG-21 that had crashed in the Kashmir border region. The two nuclear-armed states are once again jostling at the brink of full-blown war in Kashmir after India Wednesday began bombing some 600 Pakistan-backed guerrillas who had crossed into its territory...
...American company's merger with Germany's Daimler-Benz. But last November, as the new outfit, DaimlerChrysler, approached the date it would debut on the New York Stock Exchange, the whole thing stalled seemingly over whether the company would use American- or European-size business cards. The more tradition-bound Germans dug in their heels, not surprisingly. But the more flexible Yanks wouldn't budge either. "It got all the way up to me, and I said, 'What the hell, they're only business cards,'" Stallkamp recounts--and he chose the slightly wider European style, for novelty's sake...