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Word: disasterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: No more all-night vigils for the Democrats. They?ll be able to get some sleep now that both the House and Senate have overwhelmingly passed a stripped-down, White House-friendly version of the disaster relief bill, leaving Republicans to count their dead after yet another crushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans Fold On Disaster Aid | 6/12/1997 | See Source »

Rowe has had a lot of practice breaking ground. "I spent my childhood on a Wisconsin farm with Depression-era parents who taught me to fear disaster," he recalls. He studied law at the University of Wisconsin and in the early 1980s helped engineer Conrail's financial turnaround. In the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTRIC POWER: COMPETITIVE JOLTS | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

"Today I just don't know what happened. It just all of a sudden fell apart...It's a tough one because that was embarrassing," Craigen said after the B.U. disaster. "That wasn't just a loss, and everyone [in the locker-room] feels that. It's going to be...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: M. Hockey Suffers From Youth Movement Again | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

What happened at these schools was a mystery to no one. Blacks and Hispanics generally do not do as well as whites and Asian Americans on law boards or have high grade-point averages, both factors which law schools--in the absence of other criteria, such as race--give enormous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACK TO THE FUTURE | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

Despite the spate of rumors, Tarses says she has been reassured that her job is not in jeopardy. "Basically I've been assured I'll be given time to fail," she says. That is echoed by her boss, ABC president Robert Iger. "The speculation as to whether we're happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: WILL JAMIE GET WITH THE PROGRAM? | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

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