Word: face
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these pills and was playing with an empty glass. I was trying really hard not to fill it up with water." But when, later, she tried talking to UHS, she was told to wait eight days for an appointment. Erin said that was a slap in the face...
...according to his own calculus of the risk to himself and his regime. The issue comes down to his feeling about the place where the myth of his own power was built. "He doesn't know," says a top U.S. official in Belgrade, "whether caving in makes him lose face to a point that challenges his power, or whether suffering the damage that would be inflicted on his security forces would undermine their control and their loyalty...
...alliance remains loath to fight its way in. A ground invasion of Kosovo would demand more than 100,000 troops, and would inevitably involve extensive casualties. "If Milosevic stopped his offensive, withdrew some of his forces and opened dialogue on a peace plan that would allow NATO to save face, that would likely be an attractive option to at least some of NATO," says Dowell. Indeed, on Friday French foreign minister Hubert Vedrine said peace talks could begin if Milosevic halted his offensive and reduced his forces in Kosovo to the levels agreed with NATO last October...
...environmentalism. Carson was not a born crusader but an intelligent and dedicated woman who rose heroically to the occasion. She was rightly confident about her facts as well as her ability to present them. Secure in the approval of her peers, she remained remarkably serene in the face of her accusers. Perhaps the imminence of her own mortality had helped her find this precious balance and perspective. In most photographs, the pensive face appears a little sad, but this was true long before she knew that she had cancer. She was 56 when she died in April...
...world has deepened at an accelerating rate since the beginning of modern science 500 years ago. Our century, for example, has had the wit to ask how the universe is constructed, how even the tiniest particles of matter move and how life manages to exist in the face of all the odds against...