Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only a few years ago, viewers of very, very late-night TV were treated to a mock talk show more entertaining than most of the real ones. The host of the show was Lyle Waggoner, and its purpose was to tout a purchasable cure for impotence. Here was celebrity hawking...
Having put his foot in the door, Anderson doggedly went on to win approval in 1990 for the historic and eventually successful gene-therapy trials of the two girls with ADA deficiency. The final committee vote was 16 to 1, the only opposition coming from Mulligan, who has been Anderson...
Normally, NATO gatherings put people to sleep. This one is different. In the wake of communism's collapse, the question on the table for the first time is whether to expand eastward to embrace those former Soviet satellites finally in a position to join the free world's premier defense...
We do not know where the students found the statement which we supposedly sent to Dean Knowles saying that the report, and we quote: "[g]ave too much weight to academic needs of the NELC department and too little to the 'public component of the museum.'" The truth is that...
Finally, Clinton acted with great dignity during the historic Middle East peace ceremony in September. He gave credit to his predecessors, to former Secretary of State James Baker and to the Israeli and PLO negotiators and in general maintained a low profile. Sometimes, a president enhances his stature by deflecting...