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Word: breathing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the primary season is over, we can take a deep breath and watch television with an open mind. No longer will a soft-voiced speaker accuse another candidate of egregious crimes while somber music plays in the background. No more will opposing candidates be pictured in black-and-white photographs that look like mug shots. No longer will we have to steel ourselves against advertising lest we react too favorably to words that twist the truth. We're done with that...but only in the political process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Politics and Painkillers | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

Lyle Lovett and the Boston Ballet are not commonly mentioned in the same breath. Throughout history, country twang and elegant pirouettes have not been known to mix well. While such a combination might create a ground-breaking and spectacular work of art, it could also have disastrous results...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEARNING TO LOVETT | 4/4/1996 | See Source »

...photos and reports from spies on the ground, the CIA team decided it had enough data to produce a computer model of the secret plant. When the experts gathered around a terminal at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, what they saw on the video screen took their breath away. It was a huge underground chamber of several thousand square feet, almost three stories high. Two years earlier, Washington had succeeded in an international campaign to close down Libya's chemical-weapons plant at Rabta. Now Muammar Gaddafi was building a second nerve-gas plant near the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TARGET GADDAFI, AGAIN | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...campaign are going to be more Contract With America themes such as balancing the budget and returning authority to the states," she says. "This is what he talks about in just about every speech." Next weekend, the Senate majority leader begins a two-week vacation to catch his breath and plot a course through the next few months, which will feature a flurry of activity on Capitol Hill. Edwards says that the retreat will be a working vacation, and Dole will seek the advice of his wife, Elizabeth, and trusted friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Golden Gate | 3/26/1996 | See Source »

...amazement, S1407 had cleared the committee. What's more, it had passed in the full Senate the next day. The vote caught my breath: 16 for, 15 against, four absent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: My Senator And Me | 3/14/1996 | See Source »

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