Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them with Norplant, the birth-control device. It might work, says Montana veterinarian Jay Kirkpatrick, who has used Norplant successfully on skunks. Inasmuch as beavers are such eager workers, it will be interesting to see if they suffer from angst as they try, try, try to have babies and fail, fail, fail...
...long-dominant Americans especially expected to excel in the individual free sprints, the glamour events, as if they were a birthright. The favorite: Biondi, the 1988 five-gold champion who earns six figures posing for Ray Ban sunglasses and drinking Evian water. And should the California torpedo fail, there would be ample backup on the U.S. team, including Tom Jager, the 1988 silver medalist who earns a living swimming against Biondi in exhibition races. Los tiburones yanqui -- the Yankee sharks -- the Spanish sportswriters dubbed them...
...best, do not much care whether they live or die. They are infuriated by talk of "innocent" victims of the disease, with its implication that gay victims are all guilty and deserve their fate. They are enraged that ostensibly sympathetic heterosexuals, including their own families, may voice concern but fail to grasp the depth of the emotional exhaustion, isolation and sense of loss. And many gay men, even when they test negative for the disease and meticulously avoid behavior thought likely to transmit it, live with a constant sense of doom, an anguishing irrational certainty that this virus will someday...
...gone. The new test requires a high-tech treadmill device with the Jetson-ish name dynamometer. It collects exhaust while the car idles, accelerates and brakes. Then it runs the material through computerized equipment so sensitive that millions of cars now capable of passing inspection are likely to fail. And not just old smokies: the EPA estimates that as many as a third of recent-model cars will flunk, instead of the current...
...Live show Friday night to urge them to "stay the course as a united team." To what end? Perot sketched a vague but grandiose scenario in which his movement would exert "enormous leverage" not only on the presidential candidates but on nominees for Congress as well. If those candidates fail to toe a line Perot has yet to define, his followers would exact retribution at the polls...