Word: cooler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pakistan and India pull back? Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said his country might reach an agreement not to be the first to use nuclear weapons. Domestic opposition to his party's nuclear jingoism is starting to emerge now that cooler heads assess how much sanctions, like the World Bank's postponement of an $865 million loan, may hurt. Even some in the Indian military are urging restraint. "I don't see a warlike situation building up on either side," says General V.P. Malik, chief of staff...
...temperature in Washington soared into the 90s and the negotiators were driven out of their conference room in the 60-year-old main Justice building for lack of weekend air conditioning. They beat the heat in the offices of Microsoft's lawyers, Sullivan and Cromwell, but even there cooler heads did not prevail. In a matter of hours, the negotiations collapsed. "The government's theories for the personal computer industry," said Microsoft senior vice president William Neukom afterward in the company's combative official statement, "were not in the interest of PC users and would have set a bad precedent...
...sets and the city gets cooler, Officers Maureen B. Ford and Antonio Ayala begin their patrol of the Central Square area on foot...
...organizers of the Parade of Stars completely fail to recognize such integral categories as "Most Popular Person," "Best Friend" or "Favorite Clique." We have "Best Community Service Group" (and my personal opinion is that City Step is much better than Mission Hill--I mean, it's so much cooler, and they have a dance), but we don't have "Best Religion" or--especially important--"Best Ethnic Group." Sure, we can vote on whether Football is better than Basketball, but we are denied the opportunity to decide if the "Hello, young lady" man in the square is better than the "Spare...
...meantime, though, I'll be buying my $8 ticket to the ceremony, getting together my semiformal attire and trying to decide if it's cooler to be worried about sweatshop conditions in Harvard factories or labor conditions on grape plantations. BENJAMIN J. MORGAN '01 April...