Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couple of years ago, two guys were sitting in the MTV offices in downtown Manhattan, throwing down some Bloody Maries and toasting the success they've been having with Downtown Julie Brown. One of them, in an alcoholic fog, chortled as he suggested that MTV could do nothing wrong. "Why," he stammered, "we could even do a show that was all acoustic and people would watch...
Apparently, just minutes before, the tugboat MV Mauvilla had had an encounter with the same bridge. Pushing a tow of six barges strapped together, the ship had taken a wrong turn on the Mobile river and strayed into the bayou. In the fog and darkness, however, the barges became unlashed and began drifting. According to expert speculation last week, they may have hit the bridge, which was too low to let them pass. Someone on the tugboat radioed the Coast Guard for help. By then, however, the Sunset Limited roared into sight -- and plunged straight into disaster. The bridge gave...
...killed a harmless boy? Come to think of it, where does his alcoholic mother get her money? Smilla begins to poke into a mystery that no one else acknowledges. Answers disappear in the gray, corporate fog that surrounds a great mining conglomerate. The police warn her roughly to stop annoying important citizens. She is befriended -- Why? Simply because she's good- looking? -- by a hulking, silent man, a mechanic, who seems to have had a violent past...
...throughout the year, administrators and student-faculty committees seemed to be peering into a dense fog--unsure of what step to take next...
Such startling candor shook the White House just as it was warming up the 100-days fog machine. But behind the scenes, many officials were quietly grateful. Panetta's comments echoed warnings from top aides in recent weeks that Clinton was, as one put it, "everywhere, and nowhere, at once." Though officials dutifully huffed that Panetta was "off the message," they hastened to note that they concurred fully with his conclusions. Within days, Clinton had throttled back; his proposal for reforming campaign finance had been postponed, and measures on crime and welfare reform were sidetracked. As a relieved Democrat...