Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, evidence of callowness). But even his darkest interludes are subtle and variegated. There's a vivid moment in one of his stories when an awestruck boy beholds a flash of lightning: "someone seemed to strike a match in the sky." Something lovely is always dancing beyond Chekhov's horizon, toward which his characters gaze with palpable yearning...
...before he gets even that far. The first is scandal: the combined spectacle of several top Administration officials under investigation by independent counsels as well as Clinton's Whitewater troubles. The second is a rebellion from within his own party. The President's political advisers have been scanning the horizon since November for signs of a challenger. Yet even if party elders urged him to quit the race to make room for another Democrat, Clinton would almost certainly refuse. Says a source who knows Clinton well: "He could be at 20% approval in the polls, and he would still...
...horizon is dim, and there will becontinuing reductions," says Higgins Professor ofPhysics Sheldon L. Glashow, who received a NobelPrize...
...mild winter has made mush out of slopes for downhill racing, in which Tomba never competes. As a boy, he was warned against that risky business by his mother--sound advice it may be, for injuries have also dogged his rivals. If there is a cloud on Tomba's horizon, it is Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg, a five-time world champ. Girardelli finished 18th at Adelboden, but his third-place Cup total of 563 points still gives him a theoretical shot at the title. He has 12 races left, while Tomba has just four: two this weekend in Furano, Japan...
With only the Harvard-Yale game on the horizon, the best the Crimson can hope for is a 500 season overall. Injuries have figured highly in Harvard's record...