Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite a blessing. We sighed a big breath of relief...
...office in Geneva, who in turn gets on another phone with Citi's brokers in New York City. "At that point," Jensen will later recall, "His Highness said, 'Buy!'" First the prince supplies the names of four finalist companies. Then he supplies the figure: $1.2 billion. Jensen sucks his breath back out of the phone and places the order. "Everybody on Wall Street is crying, but I was prepared for this," says Alwaleed, palpably confident and cool. Jokes his Saudi adviser Mustafa al Hejailan: "With the prince it is like playing Monopoly with real money...
This fall the cable channel took a deep breath and gave Bart what he wanted. Quick cuts, vapid veejays, silly game shows, Singled Out, the beach house--gone. In their place, the channel refocused its programming on music and news; showcased interviews with musicians broadcast live from a studio overlooking Times Square; and hired a new cast of serious, rock-minded jocks. To oversee the changes, it brought in Brian Graden, 34, the former Fox executive who commissioned the famously crude Christmas cartoon that became Comedy Central's hit, South Park. "There's more value on talent and substance...
...Gulf War allies--notably France, Russia and Egypt--all oppose the use of force this time around. They urge Clinton to pursue an ill-defined diplomatic solution, ratcheting up the pressure until Saddam blinks. Clinton would love to prevail in that fashion, but he's not holding his breath. He knows that Saddam responds to diplomatic wrist slaps the way a tank does to toy guns. The watered-down resolution passed last week by the U.N. Security Council, which hit Iraq with a ban on official travel, must be laughable to a dictator who rarely leaves his country...
Between spreading his messages of peace and love for the rap community, Puff Daddy performed some of his more popular songs, most of which are remakes of earlier '80s rap or rock songs, including "I'll Be Missing You," a remake of the Police's "Every Breath You Take," "Mo Money Mo Problems," "It's All About the Benjamins" and "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down." The audience itself, primarily teenagers dressed up as Puff Daddy look-alikes, only showed enthusiasm for Puff's sampled songs (the majority of his works) over his original ones from...