Word: daring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most people see it, China has no reason to renege. It's what some commentators call the "golden goose" theory: Hong Kong's thriving economy, capitalist infrastructure, and status as a hub of world business make it such a tantalizing prize that the Chinese won't dare to mess with it. (Deng Xiaoping himself has been known to say, "To get rich is glorious.") The theory has been so convincing that big business has come to see 1997 not as a disaster but as an unrivaled opportunity to crack the billion-strong Chinese market. Integrating Hong Kong into the mainland...
...certainly had an effect on the Orioles' opponents, however. What pitcher would dare pitch Cal inside, what baserunner even think of sliding hard on a double play, and take a chance of being branded one of baseball's all-time bad guys...
...station affect his sense of self. West Indians like him had come to this country with nothing. Every morning they got on that subway, worked like dogs all day, got home at 8 at night, supported their families and educated their children. If they could do that, how dare anyone think they were less than anybody's equal? That was Pop's attitude...
...diaries began as a dare. As a 17-year-old high school sophomore in his hometown of Kewanee, Illinois, Ellis tried to enliven a cold, dull winter by proposing a contest to see which student could keep a diary the longest. One friend stopped after two weeks, another after three months. Ellis, like the Energizer Bunny, kept on going. And going...
...about most of these independent films; they're call-ing cards for directors with Hollywood dreams. They take old-fashioned genres and show the big boys how to do it in an even more old-fashioned way: small, smart and cheap. For these pictures are the soapbox racers that dare to compete against the sleek but bland big-studio vehicles. And who wouldn't prefer the Indie 500 to Hollywood's Formula...