Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Clinton would insist he hadn't picked Albright because she is a woman, or because Hillary likes her, or because women's groups keep reminding him that they did much to get him re-elected. So it was left to her friends and admirers to revel in the idea of a Secretary of State who sorted out the future of Bosnia while cuddling a grandchild on her lap, who knits and cooks and wears red suits and goes antiquing with Barbra Streisand, who keeps a miniature broom in her office sent by a critic who called her a witch...
Fate sometimes provides by taking away. For six years, Zoran Djindjic backed nearly every idea, every group and every trend that might lessen the absolute hold on power enjoyed by his country's imperious, corrupt and autocratic President, Slobodan Milosevic. But the despotic leader stood unbowed and seemingly unconquerable. Relentless in his quest, Djindjic decided to run for mayor of Serbia's capital, Belgrade. Three weeks ago, to the astonishment of many observers, he won. Then, to no one's real surprise, Milosevic reacted to his party's stunning defeat by ordering the courts to annul the election, in which...
Bill Zanker, 42, is one of those quirky entrepreneurs always on the lookout for the Next Great Idea. Jogging through San Francisco's Golden Gate Park one day, he spotted a man offering massages for $1 a minute. "He was dirty, he looked homeless, and yet people were lined up," recalls Zanker. "I thought, 'What a great idea.'" Browsing the Sharper Image, he found an array of massage-related products that sent his mind spinning. Thought he: "There's got to be a way to bring stress reduction to the masses." Eureka! Zanker opened the first Great American BackRub store...
...Early last winter, I talked with their coach [Yaichi Mizuno]," Murphy said. "In principle, I thought it was a great idea, but they wanted to do it during the summer, which wasn't going to happen.... It became a series of negotiations over the summer and the season...
...aging. This theory suggests that aging is a result of the progressive shortening of DNA within the body's cells. Now this theory could hardly be possible without the discovery of DNA itself, a result of basic research. When Francis and Crick searched for DNA, they had no idea of the possibilities ahead. However, without their discovery, bacteriophages and insertion of human genes into bacteria would not be possible or even thinkable. This process now produces human insulin within bacteria, thus allowing diabetics to avoid the side-effects of animal insulin and providing a cheaper source of the drug...