Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kobe (5,090 dead, 29 still missing and about 300,000 homeless) has led to intense criticism of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama--even from members of his own Socialist Party. Offers of assistance from 60 countries, the U.N. and the World Health Organization poured in, but some were subjectedto endless bureaucratic wrangling. Examples: foreign doctors were rebuffed at first because they did not have Japanese licenses; Swiss sniffer dogs were threatened with quarantine by the Agriculture Ministry. Conditions in the stricken port city, however, are improving, with 18,600 emergency housing units under way, thousands of workmen busily laying...
...country, prophesied that in a few years motorists on the New Jersey Turnpike would see oil refineries adorned with signs written in Arabic and pictures of the King of Saudi Arabia proclaiming their new ownership. Oil shocks did help trigger raging inflation that even into the early 1980s seemed endless. I recall one of my journalism colleagues (no, we aren't immune to this kind of folly) asking a high financial official whether he could foresee price increases and interest rates ever falling below 10%-and expressing shocked disbelief when the official answered yes. I wonder if my colleague remembered...
...entangles the nation's school system. ``What does this say about our priorities?'' asks Chester E. Finn Jr., who was an Assistant Secretary of Education for President Reagan and is now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.``Is it any wonder people are getting sticker shock with the endless requests to spend more money for the same product...
...Dream Team is ready: ready for trial and weary of the endless warm-ups and preseason skirmishes. Or rather, if O.J. Simpson's defense lawyers are not primed, they aren't admitting it. True, some nerves have become a bit frazzled lately--Robert Shapiro and F. Lee Bailey weren't speaking there for a while--and the team suffered some major setbacks last week. Judge Lance Ito ruled that the prosecution need not prove its case ``to a moral certainty'' and could introduce evidence of prior violence in the Simpson marriage. But O.J.'s lawyers barely flinched. They have their...
Like butterflies or Apollo rockets, the careers of rock-'n'-roll superstars typically have multiple stages. In the first, the rock star sings powerfully and touchingly about the sweet pangs of adolescence and the seemingly endless , wait for adulthood. In Stage 2, the rock star screeches churlishly about the unbearable pain of megacelebrity and the seemingly endless wait for room service at the Four Seasons. And in the third and last stage, the rock star goes on MTV Unplugged and performs all the songs from the first and second stages, only this time with acoustic instruments...