Word: closer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Concepcion Campa, 48. Campa is director of the state-run Finlay Institute, the Havana bio-research facility at which she created the meningitis vaccine. But she's also a communist Politburo member, and she got a crash course in capitalist haggling during the negotiations, as well as a closer, less ideological understanding of Americans. "It was hard to make sense of all those Anglo-Saxon contract clauses," she told TIME. "But we appreciated each other's forms of thinking better...
Under her tutelage, the Hawks have earned victories over Sacred Heart, Central Connecticut State and Long Island. The Hawks escaped with a 57-54 win over Sacred Heart, a much closer game than Harvard's 33-point blowout of the same opponent...
...ripping up a table full of crockery and throwing the girl down. I saw The Thomas Crowne Affair, and they were literally making love while climbing the stairs! I don't know anybody who behaves like that. The way that they make love in this picture is, I think, closer to what people actually do. I think they do that, in Hollywood movies, because they're afraid of intimacy. They're afraid of showing it. And they're worried about what the rating will be [Jordan's film secured an R rating from the MPAA without making any cuts]. Maybe...
...this enigmatic end of the millennium--enticing and sinister, like a ticking package wrapped with a golden ribbon--the size and scope of the world's party refuses to resolve itself before the last minute. There's ample time for a backlash against the backlash as M-day draws closer and people start feeling millennial peer pressure to make impressive plans. (Even Wyatt is now thinking about adding a "big boom" to her family retreat in Texas.) But if more of us than expected end up passing the moment quietly, toasting our family and friends by the fire...
...develop amnesia. His ambitious economic plans for Michigan depend in no small part on the intimate connections forged between his state and the bordering Canadian province of Ontario. In fact, the struggle to thrive in the globalized economy of the next century is likely to bring both jurisdictions closer together than they have ever been...