Word: existing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angola's Olympic debut was unlikely, consider those of Lithuania and Croatia. Neither team existed last year. Their countries, new to the conjugation of nations, exist only perilously and amid great hardship. But on the court, Lithuania and Croatia do honor to their homelands. Lithuania is led by Marciulionis, whose favorite painter is Hieronymus Bosch. Most N.B.A. players do not have a favorite painter or would not know Bosch from Beethoven, but they all know Marciulionis. This past season as the Golden State Warrior's sixth man, he was fourth in the N.B.A. in points scored for minutes played...
...news, if a new virus does exist, is that AIDS will become even harder to prevent or cure. Pharmaceutical manufacturers have already been hampered by HIV's talent as a quick-change artist. Only last year a group of promising anti-AIDS drugs had to be shelved because HIV adapted too easily to the medication. And drugs that prove effective against all forms of HIV will not necessarily knock out an entirely novel virus...
...Harper's dictionary of words that don't exist (but should) introduced the term algore, meaning "impenetrable blandness." Other terms included vacationoia, defined as the anxiety that overtakes the family far from home when no one can remember whether the stove was turned off. Grapevine offers the following much needed terms...
Many area filmmakers appreciate the abundance of work opportunities in Cambridge-- opportunities which some say do not exist in New York or Los Angeles...
...other Olympic sport has the competitive picture been so transformed. East Germany doesn't exist anymore; neither does the steroid program that artificially enhanced its athletes. Meanwhile, so much American talent has ripened that Evans didn't qualify for this year's team in the 400-m individual medley, an event in which she won gold four years ago. Overall, U.S. women stand a good chance of winning a record-tying 11 of 15 events, and eight team members rank as at least co-favorites in one or more individual races. For the first time in decades, the U.S. women...