Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When he finally did, on a cold Wednesday afternoon in the kind of soulless hotel ballroom where campaigns go to die, his friends had never seen him look so sad. In his graceful exit speech, they heard all the qualities and contradictions that have made Powell's character and career so fascinating: a military man with a social conscience; a black New Yorker who attracted white Southern voters and Wasp CEOs like lint; the man who kept gays out of the military but endorsed gay parents as long as they create a home with love and discipline; a geology major...
...only after the book tour that Powell addressed himself to the hard question of actually deciding what to do. "There were times of great enthusiasm," says Armitage. "He'd get fired up, enthusiastic for the task at hand." But then the urge would die down. On Saturday, Oct. 28, Powell decided he was going to run. The next day he got up and concluded that he couldn...
...toughest battle ahead is reaching an agreement on the overall size of that tax cut. Not only are many freshmen insisting that it stay at $245 billion over seven years, but the most die-hard among them even want to make the $500-a-child tax credit apply to this year. But there too deal cutting is likely. "They have two highly competitive desires: to balance the budget and a tax cut," Gingrich says of the freshmen. "At some point, you've got to say, 'O.K., which has precedence?' And I think, in the end, balancing the budget does...
...Cross in Sydney, Australia, not knowing he had been exposed to HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS. Much later, public-health officials learned that some of the people who got transfusions containing his blood had become infected with the same virus; presumably they were almost sure to die. But as six years stretched to 10, then to 14, the anxiety of health officials gave way to astonishment. Although two of the recipients have died from other causes, not one of the seven people known to have received transfusions of the man's tainted blood has come down with AIDS...
...trend in Bond movies could actually be more of an Americanization than simply a commercialization. Nowadays there are a lot more big explosions--hallmarks of Hollywood action hits such as "Die Hard" and "Lethal Weapon"--and fewer screwy plot twists and secret hideouts. Moreover, the modish European aesthetic of the '60s and '70s has given way to American-style glamor. What was once slick and suave is now just overkill. As the end result, we have only the gloating of an automobile manufacturer...