Word: face
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assumed the best about people and never became cynical about their motives," his close friend Dave Eikenberry told TIME, "and that's amazing, given the sycophants and leg humpers he had to deal with every day. It took enormous fortitude for him to stay well grounded in the face of his bizarre celebrity, but he did it. Besides which, he was just the best guy to do stuff with I've ever known. I'm going to miss him for the rest of my life...
...Three years ago the conservative core in the Majlis was reduced from 170 to 140, and then two years ago Khatami trounced the conservatives? candidate for the presidency in a 70 percent landslide. And the conservatives have been bracing for further setbacks next March. And in 2001, Khatami will face the fight of his life when Iran votes for its next president and the conservatives pour all their considerable political resources into reversing their 1997 humiliation...
...John cared about serious political issues, John was wise, and no lightweight ? note that those are not policy wonks tromping through lower Manhattan to leave notes and flowers on John and Carolyn?s North Moore Street doorstep. Overwhelmingly, they are the ones who bought the publications that plastered his face on the front page, again and again, and told the stories of John-John and Madonna, John-John and Daryl Hannah, John-John and his beautiful wife, Carolyn Bessette. "Because he was so handsome," says Orecklin, "he dated beautiful women. He was photogenic. The photographers wanted him; he didn...
...lines come from a two-year old Time Magazine article, invoked recently by public-policy advocate Ted Halstead. The article and Halstead both seek to alter that common image branded upon those born between 1965 to 1978, Generation X. Enough to make anyone schizophrenic, Generation Xers first had to face their parents' scorn as lazy, slothful, ungrateful children, and more recently are stereotyped as innovative go-getters, technology mavens and upstart venture capitalists. Yet for the Glasgow-based ensemble, who are garnering quite a following on both sides of the Atlantic, the duality almost makes sense...
...trillion-dollar land rush to the shores since World War II. Seawalls, jetties and other technologies aimed at protecting waterfront property only accelerate the loss of sand or starve nearby beaches. Unless politicians end the absurd subsidies that encourage development on shifting sands, Dean powerfully argues, America may face a future of beachless beach towns...