Word: following
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't until after the New Orleans fund-raising dinner that night, as the entourage boarded a private jet for Roanoke, Va., that some advisers began to feel queasy. The logical follow-up question, they realized, would be, "What about during your father's Administration?" It was slowly dawning on them that the hole was just getting deeper. And that was even before checking the Dallas paper's website upon landing and seeing the nightmare headline: BUSH SAYS HE HASN'T USED DRUGS IN LAST SEVEN YEARS...
...people "got" what he meant. Bush is basically winking at us too when he says he was "young and irresponsible." We're just supposed to get it and move on. When your Aunt Edna says her stomach's been acting up, you're not supposed to shout a detailed follow-up question about her colon...
...Harris, 47, a homemaker in Stanton, Calif., came up with a market-based proposition: she would pay drug addicts $200 to get sterilized or take long-term birth control. Since November 1997, Harris' nonprofit organization, Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity, has paid 61 women to follow her program: 44 had their tubes tied; the remainder took time-release birth-control drugs. Before they signed up, Harris says, the women acknowledged having experienced a total of 446 pregnancies, of which 169 were aborted. Twenty-three of their children were stillborn, 22 died later, and 185 were placed in foster care...
PHONE WARS Last week MCI joined Sprint and Qwest in offering 5[cents]-a-minute calling rates, and market leader AT&T may follow suit. Meanwhile, Qwest announced unlimited Internet access and 250 minutes of long-distance calls for $24.95 a month. One caution: Carriers may slip in new fees or hijack your local toll-call service. Read your bill carefully...
...still a strong sense of community in Turkey," says Finkel. "It was neighbors, not civil defense units, who began digging through the rubble, many with their bare hands." That sense of community may be essential to managing the fallout from the disaster, and to the economic reconstruction that will follow. Whatever lessons are learned in managing the present disaster may well be tested again some time in the future. The country's largest city, Istanbul, whose population has doubled every 10 years since 1955, sits along a fault line and has long been warned to expect a devastating earthquake...