Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate approved a budget bill that most members didn't even have time to read. At 4,000 pages and 40 pounds, with more than 70 legislative throw-ins that have nothing to do with fiscal policy, the 1999 budget sounds like something Ken Starr would dream up -- except that this document is sending Democrats home happy...
...industry seems to be winning the image battle everywhere except Britain, even though homegrown supermodel Naomi Campbell modified her slogan from "I'd rather go naked than wear fur" to "I'd rather go naked than wear fur--until it becomes fashionable again," when she wore a huge bourbon-colored fur for Fendi last year. The public is also showing signs of protest fatigue. In the past, fur activists who freed minks from farms got sympathy. Now they are prosecuted...
When I finally reach my wife, I can speak to her through the telephone handset in the normal way. The connection is O.K., except that every once in a while the Net swallows random syllables and even whole words. I guess if you had to make frequent calls to France, say, you could learn to live with it. "Hello, Watson," I say to my wife. "_es," she says, I think. "We need to return those pants," I say. There's a pause. "Not another _air of __ton-_ly __ousers!" she says, I think...
Jamaica's cast of characters is worthy of a Dickens novel, except Dickens' characters never said "ganga" so much. Along the beach, each salesman has a name appropriate to his task. Chef grills the jerk chicken; Jelly-Man sells jellied coconuts off his cart. The beachfront entrepreneur with the most pedestrian name is John, a re-located Chicagoan who runs one of the chillest open-air bars in Negril. Why did he give up life in a first-world country to become a self-proclaimed "beach bum"? "Mid-life crisis," he says. His friend, Hills-Man, comes to the beach...
...article offered a few facts that actually don't appear in the exhibit, except perhaps to a visitor fluent in Hurrian. It included the Paula Jones-like detail that the mayor "used government agents to bring Humerelli [the woman in question] to 'the trysting place.'" And it mentioned an article in the current issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review that identifies the leader of the 1920s expeditions that unearthed the tablets. His name was Richard F.S. Starr...