Word: fogging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president, a position abolished by Boris after a failed coup attempt by said veep. "We could well be looking at Yeltsin's nightmare ticket for the coming presidential elections: Primakov for president and Luzhkov as prime minister," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "Even in his mental fog, Yeltsin must see that the program is an implicit rejection of everything that he has presided over." Primakov even tossed Yeltsin what could be an olive branch: the prospect of immunity for the Yeltsin "family" if Boris can step down quietly when his term runs out. A different, stable Russia...
...last week when Thor Axel Kappfjell, 32, known by the oxymoron Human Fly, leaped from a 3,300-ft. cliff in his native Norway in a fog, was flung back by an ill wind onto the cliff's face and was killed. His death came 15 years after that of Carl Boenish, one of four people who invented BASE jumping in 1980; Boenish also died in a leap from a Norwegian cliff. Before one begins to hatch a Scandinavian-unhappiness theory to explain all this, it should be pointed out that BASE jumpers have died all over the world...
...German and American accents just by wandering down University Road any Friday evening. And since the entire city sits surrounded by a ring of hills, on misty days it is magical to look out over the horizon to see these amazingly green hills fading in and out of the fog...
...Bush to come pray with her, which she expects within the next two weeks, before she makes up her mind. While Bush has so much of the country's attention, will he prove Ford wrong and lead us someplace instead of blowing $60 million on slick ads and a fog machine of road-tested, split-the-difference platitudes? He could lead, not follow, and woo the Christian right by bringing them along, not just kneeling down with them...
...biggest and wealthiest of Harvard's nine faculties. It includes everything from Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to Widener Library and the Fog Art Museum...