Word: figuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What Clinton's aides all knew for sure was what their guts were telling them: if the story was true, it was meltdown time. But maybe it was containable. A supermarket tabloid, they figured, might not be the most credible accuser. As the train headed for Michigan City, Indiana, its...
That evening in Chicago, Morris and his wife calmly gave a dinner party at their suite for 25 guests who had worked with him on the President's campaign. Morris revealed no hint of the troubles that were eating away at him. At the convention center, where Al Gore would...
For nearly five years the Canadian communications satellite known as Anik E-1 circled the earth without a serious hitch. Last spring, though, the $220 million spacecraft faltered. For hours, until users could switch over to backup systems, the transmission of all sorts of critical data--credit-card transactions, newspaper...
Enemy and friend alike feel by now that they have figured the man out. They don't even disagree that much on the diagnosis. All but the most poisonous enemies give Clinton at least some credit for his remarkable capacity for empathy, for his off-the-cuff eloquence, for his...
Or maybe not. An experiment described in the current Nature suggests that the huge carnivore did indeed have the most powerful bite in history. Researchers led by Gregory Erickson, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, figured that if they could reproduce the T. rex bite marks found...