Word: damn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asked about China last week--and a brain opened. "Taiwan trumps everything," Forbes began. "It's the top priority." Would he defend the island if China attacked? "Of course," he said emphatically. "But unlike Clinton, I'd make damn sure Beijing knew that up front. The so-called creative ambiguity that [Defense Secretary William] Perry pushes is ridiculous. Saying that the possibility of protecting Taiwan would depend 'on the circumstances' invites trouble. We should ignore China's claims to exceptionalism, stop psychoanalyzing the place, stop worrying that we might say something that offends them and state our interests clearly." Nothing...
...annoying direction and a terrible script, you are forced to care about all of the characters, setting up an emotional windfall after several of them drown. However, if you're too busy laughing at lines like, "Do you know what's out there? Some wind and rain and some damn big waves," you'll hardly have time...
Lewis is currently in Boston on the tour of the musical "Damn Yankees," in which he plays Satan
...able to obtain skilled foreign workers," the Senator says, "but not with an abandon that leaves 1.1 million skilled young Americans chiseled out of jobs." He dismisses criticism of the bill as "a very deft operation of near hysteria" and asserts, "We're not trying to do one damn thing to [hurt] American competitiveness...
...Center on January 28, 1986, millions of people watching a textbook launch around the world saw it explode in a horrific fireball, killing seven astronauts, including school teacher Christa McAullife. TIME's Jerry Hannifin reports: "NASA learned a hard lesson with this tragedy. It learned not to be so damn complacent about machinery and the people who monitor that machinery. It changed the mindset of NASA, which up to that time had a sense of overweening self-confidence. That arrogance contributed to the explosion. NASA lost not only the public confidence, but some of its own self-confindence as well...