Word: cloude
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maintained he could not remember who gave him all the money he received while in office. The trial is expected to rock South Korean politics, not only bringing down some top politicians connected to Roh, but also casting the leaders of the country's largest businesses under a cloud of corruption. So far, executives from 36 firms have been questioned by prosecutors, and several are likely to face arrest. If convicted, the 63-year old former president could face life inprisonment...
...GOPAC disclosures put Gingrich under a cloud just as his party enters the final weeks of budget negotiations with the White House. To allay the image problem, Gingrich transferred responsibility for day-to-day budget bargaining to majority leader Dick Armey and Budget Committee chairman John Kasich. To some extent, Gingrich will try to rely on others, including such unlikely spokesmen as freshman J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, to make the sales pitches on talk shows and press conferences. Gingrich has even vowed to get more sleep. The self-benching has some Gingrich aides worried about the "message vacuum" that will...
...released 147 days earlier will plunge into the upper Jovian atmosphere at 106,000 m.p.h., its heat shield glowing. Two minutes later, after friction has slowed its descent, the probe will deploy a parachute at around 400 m.p.h. and drift downward, sniffing at gases, measuring temperatures and pressures, observing cloud structures and lightning and transmitting data back to its mother ship. Finally, about an hour into its descent, the probe will be vaporized by the steadily increasing temperatures it encounters below the dense clouds. Its fate, says a NASA official, will be to "join the atmosphere it came to observe...
...Sommer offers an adept portrayal of a man rich in feeling but poor in political skills, and Cumpsty does a marvelous job of radiating dangerous certitude. He embodies the paradox of the sort of spiritual fervor that, while ostensibly surrendering itself to a Larger Power, borders on megalomania: every cloud in the sky, every leaf on the tree, serves as a personal signal corroborating his uncompromising judgments...
...easy adoration that could have worked like a drug, even with Powell's political immune system. Michael watched his father wrestle with it. "I was very, very proud to watch him say, 'I've got to step out of this cloud for a moment and look inside myself.'" A race for the presidency, however easy the start, would become very, very hard. The general was enough a creature of the capital to know how it works. "The people who are sucking you in today will stick a knife in your back tomorrow if the boat starts to go under," Michael...