Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women are less competent late in their cycles, says Sherwin; the changes are too minor "to have any real effect in the real world." Still, there is little doubt that the foggy forgetfulness that envelops some women as they approach menopause is a direct result of low estrogen. The fog generally lifts on its own, but hormone therapy can bring an almost instant break in the clouds...
...have convinced many Fed-watchers that he won't push to cut interest rates when the Fed convenes next month, as many stock and bond investors hope he will. ButTIME's Suneel Ratansays the current economic signals are now so confusing that even Fed members are waiting for the fog to lift. Even if they do not cut rates at the July meeting, Ratan reports, the governors may cut them at any time as more troubling economic news develops...
...mission was under way. Within minutes the aircraft had reached Bosnian Serb territory. At one point, Admiral William A. Owens, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called Lake and said, "Our feet are dry," meaning they were flying over land. The sun was winking through the rugged, fog-draped Balkan terrain as the CH-53s spent the next 50 minutes flitting 200 ft. over pine forests...
...before setting down. In the front seat, sitting between the two pilots, Berndt peered through the cockpit and saw, to his astonishment, a young man running toward him with a pistol. The man was 50 or 60 yards away, coming up a little rise between some pine trees. The fog was fairly dense, and at first Berndt was not sure who it was. "But," he recalls, "I quickly figured...
...power brings more than pace; it makes better theater on the screen. Conventioneers last week were mesmerized by a preview of 3DO's 64-bit chip (still in development) that can bathe surprisingly lifelike characters in a realistic-looking fog. Nintendo wowed viewers with a videotape demonstrating how its new computational horsepower can be used to eliminate the jagged lines in and around objects, wrap them in textures, or even zoom in and out without suffering the usual loss of clarity...