Word: duds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...potentially important AIDS treatment announced last winter may be a dud. A "cocktail" of three drugs seemed to prevent the HIV virus from reproducing in test tubes. But both the original scientists and others have discovered a subtle flaw in the research that made the effect seem more significant than it really...
Like many a supposed doomsday weapon, the "debt bomb" has turned out to be a dud. That seems to be true in Latin America, anyway -- and that was where countries had piled up by far the greatest amount of the international debt that sparked despair a decade ago. Experts feared that the ious would crush economies in the Third World, while defaults on the loans would bring down big banks and cause a First World financial crisis...
...Films. Robinson's new company, named after the 1943 Preston Sturges film The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, scored a hit in 1988 with its first effort, Young Guns. The company went on to produce such other moneymakers as Major League and Pacific Heights, as well as a dud, Coupe de Ville, which took in only $5 million at the box office...
...With military supplies and arms dwindling after numerous allied strikes, the Iraqis resorted to "an odd bit of desperation," according to a U.S. War College analyst. They launched a Scud missile at Israel that was topped with a 700-lb. chunk of concrete as its "warhead." The dud Scud buried itself harmlessly in the Negev desert...
Republican optimists murmured two autumns ago that Dan Quayle's presence on the G.O.P. ticket might attract votes from women beguiled by his good looks. Wrong. The presumed sex bomb proved to be a dud on Election Day, according to NBC's exit poll. Now women give Quayle even less support than men do. A recent TIME survey found that only 20% of American women (vs. 30% of men) view Quayle as qualified to assume power if something happened to George Bush. The contrast is one of many demonstrating that a gender gap still yawns in U.S. politics...