Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what may seem clear cut in the abstract can become more complicated in real life. For instance, what exactly is infidelity? This is a question that in slightly different form--How does one define "sexual relations"?--continues to dog the President. According to the TIME/CNN poll, 95% of Americans, which is about as unanimous as we ever get, agree that "having sex with a prostitute" counts. On the other end of the survey's scale is "casually flirting with someone else," considered adulterous by a (hard to live with?) minority of 35%. Somewhere in the middle are "having a sexually...
...your own Lassie once, and she didn't come home. Well, now that science has opened the door on the possibility of unlimited copies of animals, you may find yourself wishing you had the $5 million a Texas man has paid experts at Texas A&M to clone his dog...
...TIME science correspondent Michael Lemonick points out that this shaggy dog story may go on and on. And on. Indeed, "it's silly," says Lemonick. "In the other cloning experiments they tried many times on many animals with many failures. In this case the chances are quite slim." Lemonick says that in the wake of the mouse cloning success, many other initiatives are being pursued that, while less cuddly than the second coming of Missy, actually have far more practical applications. "There's much bigger money to be made in cloning sheep," he says. But when was the last time...
...Center for Media and Public Affairs. "It attracts people and destroys everyone that comes into contact with it. The President's moral standing is destroyed, the political process is suspended and the press, instead of filtering out the fire hydrant of information in the information age, is like a dog urinating...
...stocks cheap yet? Clearly, they're cheaper than they were two weeks ago. But are they Russian-ruble cheap? So ugly that they scare the dog? The answer depends largely on whether you believe that interest rates will fall further and corporate earnings will hold up in the face of Asia's spreading ills. A quick scan of Wall Street illustrates the debate. At Paine Webber, chief strategist Ed Kerschner holds the rosy view that stocks "have not been this cheap since October 1990." Chief guru Abby Cohen at Goldman Sachs similarly says, "Stocks are trading at undervalued levels...