Word: guess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hired a hotel staff from across the Wall to cater. The lunch tab was $1.9 million. Sofia's bidders, who had put out a meager $50,000 buffet, trudged glumly back to Bulgaria. (As if even Brisbane had a chance! The competition that season included Barcelona, Samaranch's hometown. Guess...
...think the conservative-liberal divide on the Supreme Court doesn't count for much, guess again: It does indeed count -- especially when it pertains to counting. By a 5 to 4 vote, the Justices ruled on Monday that, for the purpose of apportioning congressional seats, the Census Bureau can't use estimates to determine the population of areas where it's difficult to obtain the actual number of residents. Writing for the conservative majority of the court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the language and history of the federal law governing the census cannot be interpreted to permit...
...need it for laundry because I guess I have enough quarters," she says...
...things will get until the witching hour arrives. The Pentagon insists that 95% of its "mission critical" computers will be fixed by June and all of them before Dec. 31. But nuclear weapons systems in all nations--including Russia, where the state of Y2K preparations is anybody's guess--are computer dependent. In November the British American Security Information Council, a nuclear disarmament group, warned that a Y2K glitch could lead to erroneous early-warning reports or even trigger the accidental launch of a nuclear missile. Nuclear power plants could be vulnerable to the same difficulties. Last year, when...
...directed in a fake-verite style that distracts a bit from the entertaining spectacle of the rich airing their bloody silk underwear in public. But it's still creepy fun to watch the upper class pretend a family isn't in tatters. When propriety meets outrage in a chateau, guess which one wins? Cognac, anyone...