Word: forthings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprisingly, the rest of the world reacts in schizophrenic ways to such contradictory impulses. The U.S. has lurched back and forth between accommodating China to gain commercial advantages and condemning its ugly record on human rights and its erratic behavior toward its neighbors. Its repressive treatment of dissent ignites America's cold war instincts. Beijing has not fully resolved what role it wants to play in the world, and that has made it harder for other nations to judge it fairly...
...battle of titans, as the two massive men met at center mat. The match was give and take, back and forth, as the fate of the league hung in the balance. In the end the Brown behemoth proved too much for Ackil and Harvard succumbed, losing the match by a mere four points...
...combat the problem, the USGS is deploying detectors around volcanoes so that air-traffic controllers can be alerted when an ash cloud belches forth. While this could go a long way toward making the skies safer, the business of setting up the instruments is going slowly. Currently, the faa, which funds the project, is devoting only $2 million a year to it, barely enough to equip two volcanoes. At that rate, it would take 275 years before all the world's active peaks were covered...
...talk shows and Sardi's. On Thursday, Rita and Doug took Pa back to their Rainbow Kennels in Newark, Delaware. There waiting for him were balloons and flowers and champagne--and colleagues barking their congratulations. Pa will now go into semiretirement, shuttling back and forth between Delaware and Italy, commanding a $1,000 stud fee. "One thing won't change," said Doug. "He's still going to be my best friend...
...menial work in several Catholic hospitals. Intensely, not to say neurotically, pious, he went to Mass as often as five times a day. For the last 40 years of his life he dwelled in a small rented room on Chicago's North Side, from which he would timorously sally forth to collect street trash. After his pauper's death, hundreds of empty Pepto-Bismol bottles and nearly a thousand balls of string were found in his room. He had no friends and talked to himself incessantly in various voices. He did, however, have a secret life of disconcerting size...