Word: grins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Poweredge, hooked into a refrigerator-size rack of network routers and, from there, via a thumb-thick black cable, to the infinite abundance of the Internet. Edward Zeng, the 35-year-old Chinese entrepreneur who commands this tiny outpost in the battle for information freedom, can't resist a grin as he looks around the modest but astonishing room buried within a warren of offices in the bunker-like hallways under Beijing's Capital Stadium. As state-sponsored basketball and badminton teams practice overhead, Zeng pats one of his purring servers and ponders an altogether more dramatic kind of game...
...beginning of her hospital stay, with a grin on her face and a clenched fist in the air, she told me that she would beat the disease. Despite harsh chemotherapy side effects, opportunistic infections and pure discomfort, my mother was always the fighter...
When asked how he can afford to sell hisseafood so cheaply, owner Victor Ramos gives ahuge toothpaste grin and smiles, "I have veryefficient fishermen...
...global trade, economic stress, campaign-finance reform--"and people would come up and say, 'So you really believe the things you've always said? You weren't just trying to manipulate us for our votes?' And I'd say, 'No, this is what I feel.'" Bradley gives an impish grin, as if he had just admitted to something wild and risky. He is luxuriating in a new role: outsider, truth teller, incipient presidential contender. "I'm still trying to figure out how to use this new power," he says. "And I haven't ruled anything...
...news burst out of nowhere, the Clinton Administration was badly shaken. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was on her way to Europe to meet Primakov, among others, and she asked for reassurance that he still had a job. Primakov officially said yes in public in Cologne, with a grin, and vowed that Russian policy would not change...