Word: forthings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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William James said, "Evil is a disease." But it can be an atrocious liberation, like the cap flying off a volcano. The mind bursts forth to explore the black possibilities. Vietnam taught many Americans about evil. Hasan i Sabbah, founder of a warrior cult of Ismailis in the 11th century in Persia, gave this instruction: "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." It is a modern thought that both charmed and horrified William Burroughs, the novelist and drug addict who like many in the 20th century somehow could not keep away from horror. During a drunken party in Mexico...
Food companies contend that the confusion about their labeling stems not from deception on their part but from the government's failure to issue clear guidelines for making nutritional and health claims. The FDA plans to set forth revised labeling rules next year. "Once these regulations are out," says John Cady, president of the National Food Processors Association, "industry will know clearly what the FDA expects and will certainly comply." Cady charges that Kessler's current "hunt-and-peck approach" of | targeting big companies is largely an effort to shine up the FDA's tarnished image...
...break for Gates came in 1974, when he was assigned to work at the White House on the National Security Council. His boss, then as now, was an Air Force general named Brent Scowcroft. Over the next 17 years, Gates deftly hopscotched back and forth from the White House to CIA, winning kudos from Democrats and Republicans alike...
...stood at the outer gate of the fair-tressed goddess, and within they heard Circe singing in a sweet voice, as she fared to and fro before the great web imperishable, such as is the handiwork of goddesses They cried aloud and called to her. And straightway she came forth and opened the shining doors and bade them in, and all went with her in their heedlessness . . . Now when she had given them the cup and they had drunk it off, presently she smote them with a wand, and in the sties of swine she penned them. So they...
...important, positive development. I have often spoken out in favor of dialogue between Gorbachev and Russian leader Boris Yeltsin. What they have agreed on does not cover everything, but it sets forth some basic principles. It is a good beginning...