Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight burst into the open last week as Congress squabbled over a series of deeply emotional issues inflamed by interest-group pressure. Democrats answered labor's call by trying to raise the minimum wage, but Republicans blocked the move on behalf of business leaders. Playing to the pro-life activists, a solid phalanx of Republicans (and a minority of Democrats) in the House passed a ban on late-term abortions, but President Clinton heard from his pro-choice supporters and promised to veto it. Just days before, the House had voted to repeal the ban on assault weapons...
...with the proliferation of cheap, powerful computers and the rapid growth of the Internet, there's new interest in all kinds of "intelligent" machinery--not just chess-playing supercomputers or grandiose AI research projects like CYC and Cog. The past few years have seen a burst of entrepreneurial activity in what are called intelligent agents--programs of rather more modest IQ that are nonetheless smart enough to be released on the Internet to do small, useful chores like tracking stock prices or digging for nuggets of research data...
Then again, it may be a while before Lane is back in plays by McNally or anyone else. He has a commitment to remain in Forum for a year, and after that the dam could burst on Hollywood offers. Which suits him fine. "I would certainly like to do more films. Theater is harder. It takes a lot of stamina. As one gets older, one wants different things." A pause, then the familiar Nathan Lane whine: "I'm tired...
...Stoughton team burst into cheers upon hearing that their win earned them breakfast in bed and a pizza party for 20 of their friends, courtesy of Harvard Dining Services...
...interest payments from Whitewater she could deduct from their taxes, arguing that she and Bill were entitled to a full half of the interest payments. But it was McDougal who was making a disproportionate share of the interest payments and was thus entitled to the deduction. Jim finally burst out, "Goddamn it, Hillary, didn't they teach you in law school that you can't take a deduction for something you didn...