Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then there's the popular series of novels by retired minister Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, a former sportswriter. Set in the immediate future, their four "Left Behind" novels chronicle life on the eve of the Second Coming. Genuine Christians disappear to heaven. Everyone else is abandoned to suffer a terrible earthquake, wars and the whims of the Antichrist, a.k.a. U.N. Secretary-General Nicolae Carpathia of Romania. Collectively the books have sold more than 3 million copies. LaHaye also offers maximalist warnings about Y2K. It "very well could trigger a financial meltdown," he warned recently in an online- chat event...
...with 945 supporters, the community vision mobilized by the King campaign is unlikely to disappear, and King promises the dialogue will continue...
...girth of Mark McGwire's forearm is greater than that of a large man's neck; his biceps look as if they've been inflated with a bicycle pump. Your hand could conceivably disappear in his; if he chose, it could certainly be crushed. Yet something other than his pure physicality strikes you about McGwire. Revealed in his deep green eyes is a self-knowledge as imposing as his size and strength: I am who I am, what you see is what you get, and if I'm going to hit 70 home runs, well, that's what...
...were held apart by nothing. The box is supported by a huge spiral-stair-filled column outside and anchored on one side by a vestigial-looking tendon that plunges into the ground. On the middle story, floor-to-ceiling windows slide away on hidden tracks to make the room disappear almost entirely. If that's not complex enough, there's a three-story-high bookcase, and the porthole-like windows of the bedrooms are angled to illuminate certain places. Absurd, wonderful, revolutionary...
...media component, Paramount, and then taken out by another media company, Viacom. Geneen's successor at ITT was pressured by investors to break the company into pieces. By the time Geneen died last November, all that was left of ITT Corp. was a hotel company, which would disappear into a merger two months later...