Word: fallout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question is, which is it? Is Monica the pawn of a vast right-wing conspiracy, as Hillary so famously charged, or is she part of a vast left-wing effort to discredit Linda Tripp? Both? Neither? Who knows. The only certain thing is that the fallout from her time with the commander in chief will continue well into the next millennium...
...convincing enough that we're willing to buy Jewel tickets, or dig a fallout shelter, or buy a round trip to Tahiti. Bad math notwithstanding, Americans are remarkably blase about Y2K. "Sarah, Plain & Tall," whooped "Y2K: The Movie" before Thanksgiving. Millennium-themed advertisements are almost universally regarded as lame. And even as Y2K computer problems are beginning to surface--people in Philadelphia have been getting jury notices for service in February 1900--there's not much excitement over the impending milestone...
South High was scheduled to reopen Monday, with students to be greeted by police wielding metal detectors. But that's not the worst of the fallout for students like Melissa Oliver. She had her hair done in ringlets and bought a glittery blue dress to wear to the homecoming dance--and that hasn't been rescheduled...
...pass both houses of Congress has Beijing doubting whether Mr. Clinton can deliver, even if they do manage to strike a deal. And, of course, that's a big "if." The two sides were reportedly close to agreement when Premier Zhu Rongji visited Washington in April, but the fallout from the Chinese nuclear espionage allegations prompted President Clinton to back out - a decision, according to the Times, he now deeply regrets...
Maybe it was fallout from the gray matter that conceived E=mc2 or the fact that it was the week after a full moon, but something prompted an outburst of weirdness in response to the June 28 Science story on Einstein's brain. The first symptom was the declaration from Missouri's self-proclaimed "Prophet King" Kenna Farris: "I would allow science to study my brain, as Einstein's is being studied, but I am taking it with me after I rise from the dead." Next came word from a Michigan woman who claimed, "Like Einstein, I am an avatar...