Word: deal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe there is a high probabilitythat external air power can deal effectively andconclusively with a failed state. That's thesituation we faced in Bosnia and Kosovo and earlierin Vietnam," he said...
...deal between Harvard and Radcliffe unveiled to the general public last Wednesday morning was a mouthful. And those who were kept in the dark for over a year (everyone but the big boys and girls, in other words) need some time to digest...
Most of us call the resulting pain heartburn (though it has nothing to do with the heart). If you get it often, it's called gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD. Along with an estimated 15 million Americans, that's what I've had for nearly 30 years. No big deal, though--or so I thought until I read a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine a couple of weeks ago. Turns out that this repeated acid bath can alter esophageal cells, creating a condition known as Barrett's esophagus. Once that happens, the cells can become precancerous, then...
Sante and Kenny Kimes are a walking, talking dime novel. This mother-and-son grifter team has conned, robbed and even enslaved. But the real problem, as an acquaintance observes, is that "the people they deal with keep coming up dead." The most famous of these may be Irene Silverman. This clunky but engrossing account of the Kimeses' relationship with the wealthy Manhattanite leaves us where the New York Police Department is now: with a seemingly notorious murder, but no body and only circumstantial evidence. Still, the book's catalog of doctored passports and errant blood drops shows why this...
...billion Amount that Pepsi paid for a Star Wars sponsorship deal...