Word: either
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...midafternoon vote, despite the fact that a veto by President Clinton is assured ? and despite the fact that the measure?s biggest problem right now is Republicans themselves. Speaker Denny Hastert is cracking the party whip as hard as he can ? and he?s not afraid to beg, either, telling members that the GOP?s slender majority (not to mention his own job) is riding on this vote. And he?s breaking the first rule of congressional politics: He doesn?t even know how it?s going to turn out. "This is becoming yet another opportunity for Republicans to embarrass...
...Sundance mess tent, the music of rushing streams riding in on drifts of alpine air. Important because this level of creative nurturing doesn't exist anywhere else and because these future directors do not seem inclined--not yet, anyway--toward the variety of film that is promoted with either a Happy Meal or the billboard image of a star urinating on a wall...
...life in the high-tech mecca as nothing less than an existential journey. From the opening chapter of The Nudist on the Late Shift (Random House; 248 pages; $25), when he gushes about "meeting young people at the proving point of their lives who risked it all and would either succeed wildly or go down tragically," Bronson is on a crusade to capture the romance of this seemingly soulless patch of Northern California...
...consider taking cholesterol-lowering drugs instead of undergoing angioplasty. Researchers say folks who get their clogged blood vessels opened up with angioplasty feel more robust than those who take very high doses of the drug Lipitor. But they may also be more likely to need future hospitalizations and either bypass surgery or another angioplasty before they're done...
...temperament, for example. In my own case, even my fecklessness as a habitually lapsing moderate (the steaks, the ice creams, the occasional cigar) would hardly account for two heart attacks and two multiple coronary bypasses by the time I had plateaued into middle age. Heredity is not the explanation either. Who knows? Perhaps the subterranean fissures of the Type A internalized--bad spiritual habits, no doubt. Angers, self-lacerations, demons and opacities of character...