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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Anita Hill case, far from expanding women's rights, was a disaster for civil liberties. That Hill, an articulate graduate of the Yale Law School, could find no job-preserving way to communicate to her employer her discomfort with mild off-color banter strained credulity. That Thomas could be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: A Call for Lustiness | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

What if one or more of these asteroids are found to be a serious threat? Scientists generally agree on the best strategy for avoiding disaster: launch a rocket to intercept the intruder and, at the very least, change its orbit. If the asteroid is small and detected many years and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asteroids: Whew! | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

A White House official admitted Thursday that there was nothing bad in the story for Clinton. And he added that it was widely believed inside the White House that the clearance for leaking the deposition came from someone very close to Clinton. As protocol in these matters demands, Clinton's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will The Secretary Stick To The Script? | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Lee: The prominence has been given by Western journalists, particularly democracy and human-rights activists, who believe we should be completely like them. I have tried to explain we have a different historical background and different social values. These different values have made for fast growth. The collapse has come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense Of Asian Values: Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Steven Spielberg couldn't have asked for better publicity. Just as his big-budget asteroid-disaster movie, "Deep Impact," prepares to do the rounds, the astronomers announce that there actually is a chunk of rock out there that's set to rendezvous with the Earth -- in 30 years' time.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paging Chicken Little | 3/12/1998 | See Source »

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