Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Actress Minnie Driver trapped in elevator, rescued by former uber-agent Mike Ovitz...
...days later, after the former Chicago Bull had officially signed, it was Laker coach Del Harris who broke down. Not because he'd have to baby-sit Rodman (whose last coach would be wearing a straitjacket today were he not a Zen master) but because Harris had just been fired after a 6-6 start with a team that had had ring-ceremony potential...
DIED. GLENN SEABORG, 86, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Nobel prizewinner; in Lafayette, Calif. Seaborg began his career in the 1930s in Berkeley. He led the research team that discovered plutonium and was the first living person to have an element, seaborgium, named for him. After helping build the Bomb on the Manhattan Project, Seaborg championed the peaceful use of atomic energy...
This yen for privacy has prompted a band of start-ups to open an alternative apothecary in cyberspace. Last week Drugstore.com led by former Microsoft executive Peter Neupert, launched its virtual pharmacy and a selection of 15,000 health and beauty products to a rousing chorus of approval. A crush of visitors overwhelmed the site. Another admirer is online bookseller Amazon.com which said it had acquired 40% of the fledgling company. For Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the investment made sense. He has been on the prowl for other retail businesses that fit Amazon's amazing model, and the health...
...newspaper, was described by State Department emissaries as "vicious" and "unrealistic." Says a relieved U.S. official: "He turns out to have real leadership qualities and real political courage." Surroi, a stocky, square-jawed intellectual who smokes a pipe and talks in a gravelly monotone, is the son of a former ambassador from Yugoslavia to Mexico and Spain. His global upbringing gave him fluency in Spanish and English in addition to his native Albanian and Serbo-Croat. He is popular with diplomats. "Unlike the other [ethnic Albanians], he speaks the language of foreign policy," says an observer...