Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...residents should not expect the billboards--including one atop the Wursthaus in Harvard Square--to disappear anytime soon. Ackerley Outdoor Advertising, which owns 47 of the 52 billboards, is preparing a legal challenge to the ordinance...
Gates: I don't know what "bet the company" means. We're a company with $4 billion in the bank. I don't think we'll disappear. We're not like Time Warner, with $15 billion in debt. But if you had to take one thing in the next year and say what will our biggest impact on the PC industry be, it would clearly be Windows 95. Windows 95 is a very, very big deal...
...meaning of this year understood--we have attached meaning and value to worthless events--what do we have to look forward to next year? Will yet another American hero leave us with the unforgettable symbol of a white Ford Bronco? Will another one of our competent leaders fatigue and disappear? And will we have more regretful criminals provoke anger, dissent and a divisive student body? Stay tuned...
...once prayer vigil began my doubts began to disappear. We were doing nothing disruptive. We were simply praying the rosary quietly. The prochoice protesters were shouting, their faces filled with rage. They rattled homemade noisemakers to break our concentration. But we persevered in prayer, in a manner that was unobtrusive, humble and devoid of anger...
...will continue. Therefore, I boldly risk the opposite prediction: the populist, anti-Washington fire storm is about to fade. Nurtured on complaints and resentments that were amorphous at best, it will be sated by "solutions" that are equally amorphous or symbolic. The alleged causes of populist anger will not disappear: the budget will remain unbalanced; lifetime professional politicians will continue to run the country. But, like a summer squall, the populist storm will pass. Or rather, like a small child's crying fit, the nation's populist frenzy will melt away with time and distraction...