Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They were so fresh-scrubbed and well-dressed, anyone walking through the hallway of the courthouse's 14th floor would have been forgiven for thinking he or she was backstage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion waiting for the Oscars to be awarded...
...making the pilgrimage to Arizona to see why so much oxygen disappeared (apparently some of it was consumed by microbes in the soil and some combined with limestone in the concrete). Jack Corliss, a former NASA scientist who was hired as research director last March, may be forgiven if he sounds a bit touchy. "There are two kinds of scientists," he says. "Those who see the power of Biosphere 2 and those who don't." In five months, eight more adventurers who see the power will pass through the air locks. The period of their confinement has been mercifully...
...could be forgiven for thinking that "La Vie de Boheme," the latest film from Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki, is a cinematic adaptation of Puccini's opera of almost the same name. The confusion shouldn't last long, though. The film's first scene cuts from a rooftop panorama of Paris to a shot of the starving writer Marcel (Andre Wilms) digging through a pile of trash, muttering "merde...
...government's failure to return all the properties unjustly confiscated by the Sandinistas and to diminish Sandinista influence on policy has also put off some aid donors, most notably the U.S. During the first two years of Chamorro's term, Washington gave nearly $1 billion in grants, loans and forgiven debt. But in July the Senate voted to cut off $94 million in aid, pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation of Nicaraguan army and < intelligence ties to international terrorists. The House will soon decide whether to follow suit...
...economy as a whole, the chief benefit from low rates has been the chance for consumers and companies to ease the debt burden that the '80s left behind. Economists say that should pave the way for stronger growth by 1995. Weary Americans might be forgiven, however, for thinking the promised land is still a long way off. "Lower interest rates won't do it alone for us or for our dealers," says Allan Gilmour, vice chairman of Ford Motor Co. "Their steam has just about run out. The economy's biggest problem is that it needs an igniter...