Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the opportunity came to assume a strong role in the gulf, Japan stumbled. It condemned Iraq's invasion and joined in the sanctions. But it took noisy prodding from Washington and endless haggling in the Diet before Tokyo finally pledged a financial contribution considered acceptable by the coalition...
...guiding spirit is Grace Mirabella, who has spent 40 of her 61 years in the fashion world. Toward the end of the 17 years she spent building Vogue into a powerhouse, Mirabella harbored a vision. "I felt it was time to reposition the fashion magazine from a book of endless pages of clothes to a style magazine that readers would pick up and stay with for a few hours," she recalls. When she was fired in 1988 by S.I. Newhouse, who wanted a younger look for Vogue, media buccaneer Rupert Murdoch came forward with a proposal that Mirabella found irresistible...
...FACT that this insulting, unfair image of people who share my heritage has been prolonged for so many years is maddening enough. The fact that people ignore the endless contributions and serious problems of the Irish nation in favor of this stereotype adds further insult to injury...
After a year of seemingly endless legal trauma for Drexel Burnham Lambert and Michael Milken, each got unexpectedly favorable news last week. Federal Judge Kimba Wood recommended that the former junk-bond king be eligible for parole after serving only 36 to 40 months of the 10-year sentence she imposed on him for securities violations. Wood based her decision on the financial damage done to investors and companies as a result of Milken's confessed misdeeds, which she calculated to be $318,000, less than a day's pay during Milken's highest-flying years and far less than...
...that a ground war has begun, everybody will miss the tedium of endless nights under flimsy tents. Thompson thought about that after he drove through a military checkpoint manned by a young British soldier. The soldier's expression, menacing at first, gave way to a huge smile when he recognized a Phil Collins song playing on Thompson's tape deck. "There was this important, shared touch of home that's rare here," Thompson wrote. "I drove away and started crying. I thought, this kid, who should be home raising hell with his friends, could soon be in the middle...