Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Duchess of York as celebrity spokeswoman for Weight Watchers. At the press conference, she shows off her new size-8 figure, which she attributes to a liquid-protein diet, running from paparazzi and "crying a lot." She expresses the hope that Linda Tripp will "die in a horrible car crash...
...like none ever seen in baseball history--he hit 20 in June alone--the two men were flawlessly scripted antagonists cast in the same play. This was rapture vs. gravity, spontaneity vs. self-restraint, Latin brio vs. California cool. Their collision seemed inevitable; yet what ensued was less a crash than a hug. The two men cheered each other on, praised each other's skills, slapped hands, dissipated the heat. They became allies in this drama, united against the two-digit foe that lay blandly impassive in the record books...
...start of it was chillingly familiar: the wail of sirens, the staccato blasts of antiaircraft fire, the tracers lighting up the night sky over Baghdad. Then came the crash of missiles in the distance, sending up an orange glow along the horizon. On just the first night of Operation Desert Fox, U.S. ships and bombers pounded Iraq with 280 American cruise missiles--almost as many as hit the country during the entire Gulf War in 1991. Night after night, waves of warplanes, including B-52s, F-14s, F-18s and British Tornadoes, joined in the attack. Even...
True, the 1997-98 crash has left Asian countries, companies and banks with manufacturing overcapacity and huge debts, which have to be reduced. That, says Hormats, "means more bankruptcies, more unemployment and continued recession for most of 1999" as the excesses are written off. But the free fall is over: Thailand and South Korea, in his view, might begin to grow a bit by the end of 1999, while Japan will improve--though only from negative to zero growth. General recovery region-wide will not begin until...
Newly elected members of the 106th Congress are at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) this weekend for a crash course on the issues they will confront on Capitol Hill...