Word: following
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Year?s Morning in America Americans are feeling bullish on the brave new year. But 1997 will be a tough act to follow...
...work he operates from the same kind of cubicle that everyone else at the company gets. (One perk: a view. Of the parking lot.) He keeps a support staff of three busy. He has developed his own special "mail codes"--f/u for "follow up"--that let him zip through his In box with special efficiency. A faithful assistant once put together a Grove-to-English dictionary for new assistants bewildered by the CEO's avalanche of time-saving abbreviations...
...movie's heroic black abolitionist, never drew a breath, yet the DreamWorks worksheet challenged students to analyze his relationship with the conspicuously nonfictional John Quincy Adams. Moreover, the study guide was laced with inspirational Adams "quotations," all of them made up by DreamWorks screenwriters. And then there were the follow-up activities in the learning kit, including the suggestion that students discuss quotations from the movie's producer. (Sample: "The real history has been castrated...
...made a big splash in the gene pool when he announced that he had cloned a sheep named Dolly. Though animals had been duplicated before, Dolly was the first ever created from an adult cell rather than an embryonic one, raising the specter that a human will one day follow in her hoofsteps...
Negotiators hope that all these issues can be resolved at a follow-up conference in Buenos Aires a year from now. Meanwhile--as the politicians jockey for position--cars, factories and power plants continue to pour hundreds of millions of tons of greenhouse gases every year into the ever thickening atmosphere...