Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will reconstruct the aircraft piece bypiece," Bennett said. "They should be able to comeup with a good idea of why it crashed...
...lots of them. All the characters' names are puns. Much of the dialogue is punny. Often, even the title is a pun. (In 1989, the show was called Whiskey Business. Two years ago, it was Romancing the Throne. This year it's A Tsar is Born. You get the idea.) Every show contains a pun on the words "Hasty Pudding," as well as a "punrun"--a run of puns on one theme...
President Clinton abandoned his proposed border crossing fee today, in a move to quiet the growing clamor from Congress and several border states, which object to the idea of charging $1.50 to pedestrians and $3.00 to cars coming into the U.S. from Mexico or Canada...
...councillors are equally enthusiastic about the proposal, however. City Councillor Katherine Triantifillou expressed reservations about the idea, citing the problems that arose in the wake of national airline deregulation...
...meantime people were dying everywhere. I went to look for friends, but there was so much rubble everywhere, human hands were inadequate. If the government had responded more quickly, many lives could have been saved. Chandru Mahtani Kobe, Japan We Japanese have been obsessed with the idea of mighty technology for a long time, but finally, at the expense of thousands of lives, we now know the real name of the game is awareness. Hideaki Ukai Kyoto, Japan The true character of people is often most apparent when they are faced with adversity. In the aftermath of the Kobe quake...