Word: finaling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Furrow's downward spiral entered its final twist last fall. In late October, he took a 12-week leave from his job as a computer-assisted-design engineer at Northwest Gear, a maker of aircraft parts in Everett, Wash. Then he started drinking. One afternoon, in the depths of that bender, he tried to check himself into Fairfax Psychiatric Hospital. Babbling about having stabbed himself a few days before, he also boasted that he had a gun in his car. When an administrator took his keys and warned him that she would have to call the police, Furrow thrust...
...became chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1989, Atwater advocated a "big tent" philosophy for the party. Rove pushed the same philosophy after he opened a political-consulting business in 1981 in Texas, where Republicans laud him as the key player in the Lone Star State's final metamorphosis from a Democratic stronghold to a Republican...
...office's work continues, and that it had been "unusually productive," yielding 24 indictments, 16 convictions and the impeachment of Clinton. If Starr gets his successor, the job may not last long anyway ? a Starr spokesman confirmed that the team has already begun writing their ominous (but indictment-free) final report, which Starr says will be out "as soon as is practicable," hopefully by November 2000 (watch out, Hillary). One judge (unsurprisingly, the Carter appointee, not the Nixon or Reagan ones) didn?t want to wait. "An endless investigation, which the passivity of the majority invites," wrote Appellate Judge Richard...
...directly out to Saturn, which is on average 800 million miles from Earth. Instead it headed inward, swooping twice around Venus for "gravity assists" to increase its speed. Its encounter with Earth will boost its velocity further, and a flyby of Jupiter in 2000 will give the ship the final kick it needs to reach Saturn...
...been a good couple of days for paparazzi. First Prince Charles finally obliged photogs this weekend with the money shot they had been seeking for years ?- a rare picture of the prince on vacation with Camilla Parker-Bowles. Now the photographers who have been under investigation in the car crash that killed Princess Diana may be off the hook. According to the Associated Press, France's state prosecutor has recommended that the courts not pursue manslaughter charges against the nine photographers and motorcycle driver who were following her Mercedes through the Paris twilight. Judge Hervé Stephan is expected...