Word: guess
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...YORK: The 1998-99 NBA season is back on, sort of -- 50 or so games starting in February. Appropriately, neither side is claiming victory. "Did we blink? I guess we both blinked," players' union head Billy Hunter said Wednesday. Said NBA commissioner David Stern, after predicting that the NBA's Board of Governors would accept the agreement Thursday: "I will say that I am elated that we will be playing basketball this season." The terms of the deal indicate that both sides gained concessions, with the owners eking out a win at the negotiating table. But TIME senior business editor...
...currency's effect on the UnitedStates, it's anyone's guess. Euroland's 292million inhabitants outnumber America's 268million, and the 11-member block produces 18.8percent of the world's exports, compared with the14.1 percent produced...
...same track to Washington--except that Clinton was always ahead. Clinton was at Georgetown when Starr was at George Washington University; Clinton was a Senate aide when Starr was a House aide; Clinton landed a Rhodes scholarship, Starr missed a Marshall. "So there were sort of remarkable and I guess, in retrospect, noteworthy coincidences of activity," says Starr, "although he went on in a much more distinguished...
...fair. What about you? Suppose someone told you a year ago that the big story of 1998 would be a sex scandal involving the President and that it would reveal a great "disconnect" between Washington and the rest of the country. Then suppose you were asked to guess who was on which side. Put aside your own views on Presidents, oral sex, interns, perjury and so on. Would you have predicted that Washington would be outraged and the rest of the country would shrug it off? If you say yes, I don't believe you. In 1998, thanks to Bill...
Legitimate concerns, but guess what, guys? Air-traffic control is complicated. So is gene splicing. But reviewing a 5-yd. run on instant replay? Is there any good reason, with a game on the line, a season on the line, maybe the Super Bowl on the line, that everyone but the referees should have the benefit of technology that's roughly 35 years...