Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a lot more depth this year," senior Anne Lesburg said. "At NCAA's last year, Washington appeared to be a huge powerhouse, but this year its crew seems to be within our reach...
...most cities, they build enough hotel rooms to handle guests who come for business or to see attractions like Disneyland. But in Las Vegas, the hotels are the attractions, and "The Strip" is one huge theme park. They keep adding more rooms, and more guests keep coming to fill them. It's like a perverse twist on Kevin Costner's line inField of Dreams: "If you build it, they will come." Vegas built it, and the people are still coming...
...imagery, the simple fact that Clinton is there, for so long--12 days, six countries--and with such a huge entourage of businessmen, politicians and press, is a telling new message. Sunning himself in the glowing welcomes he encountered everywhere, Clinton showed off his best self: his comfort in clapping to the beat of tribal music, the sparkle in his eyes as he reached out to people in the crowds. Dressed in a dark suit among a gathering of Africa's new leaders at Entebbe in Uganda, he conveyed the dignified persona of the world's unchallenged leader...
...lasting lessons of the oil crisis is the way in which markets can, given flexibility, sort out what seem to be intractable problems. Oil companies are no longer seen as "national champions" essential to national objectives--not when oil is bought and sold every day in huge volumes on the futures markets...
...will have a hard time convincing a poll-driven Congress that lying about consensual sex means you lie about everything; it is the only thing many people lie about. An impeachment for lying looks like an impeachment for sex, too much of a punishment in either event, and a huge ordeal for the country...