Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone anywhere in the world can attest to ? except quite possibly in Washington, where the current HMO debate is raging ? the best medical treatment isn?t worth anything if you can?t afford it. So it came as momentous news on Wednesday when a joint American-Ugandan research team announced a new, simple and inexpensive way to help prevent the transmission of the AIDS virus from pregnant mother to child. The new treatment uses the drug nevirapine, whose costs amounts to about $4, instead of the standard, short-course AZT regimen used in the Third World, whose costs total...
...money-expectations game. Bill Bradley, Gore's sole Democratic opponent, reported a surprisingly high $11.5 million in donations, enough to ensure he'll have the resources to challenge the Vice President deep into the primary season. That means the 2000 campaign could turn into a replay of '96, except this time it could be the Democrat who depletes his money fighting a pesky primary opponent and then gasps his way through a long, hot summer. If Bush wins the nomination while hoarding his money, he'll be in a position to do to Gore or Bradley what Clinton...
...comes to me that with the Clintons, like it or not--and I do not, much--we are in the middle of a primal American saga and the important part is yet to come. Bill Clinton may be merely the prequel, the President of lesser moment--except, so to speak, as the horse she rode...
...busloads of schoolchildren arriving unannounced for a tour of the famous barn. In the New Yorker he published a series of essays under the dateline "Allen Cove," a designation that appears only on nautical maps. "That way," he said, "no one will be able to find [the farm] except by sailboat and using a chart...
...entertainment duty by taking a ball in the groin for America's Funniest Home Videos, just like everybody else. Because, I now realize, after watching loads of The Real World, that there are few things quite as cringe-inducing as listening to people try to describe who they are. Except, of course, in a magazine column...