Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea that came to consume him: that to kill an abortion provider was justifiable homicide. With Gunn's death, however, Hill found a more receptive audience: talk- and news-show hosts. Appearing first on Donahue, then on Nightline and Sonya Live, the formerly obscure car-cleaning entrepreneur gained instant recognition in the protest community saying what several believed but few admitted: "If we can use ((deadly)) force to defend our born children, why shouldn't we do so for our unborn children?" He started a single-issue group called Defensive Action and circulated a petition defending the "justice of taking...
...instant cities of despairing souls on the borders of Rwanda, hope proved less contagious than fear or cholera. Thousands of refugees kept dying in the ghastly camps of Zaire last week, as many as 2,000 a day. As the world struggled to assuage the suffering, word went out from the U.N., the White House, the relief agencies to 2 million sick and starving people: there is food in Rwanda and clean water and a promise of safety. Go home: that is the only real salvation. Some refugees, suspecting that they were merely choosing where they were going...
...most determined fighters in the camps are the medical commandos of the International Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, the French relief agency that dispatches physicians and instant field hospitals to the world's most vicious war zones. They are fighting the spread of one killer after another: cholera, dysentery, measles, even, some U.N. workers fear, bubonic plague...
...workers blame their erratic delivery record on everything from bad weather to traffic problems. Postal Service spokesman Frank Brennan claims that most of America enjoys reliable service with "pockets of problems" in traffic-congested metropolitan areas. But excuses aren't likely to carry much weight. In an era of instant communication, of E-mail and faxes, consumers have no patience for lost letters...
Forrest Gump, a romantic epic starring Tom Hanks as a slow but sweet-souled Alabama boy who lucks into nearly every headline event of the past 40 years, is the summer sensation: a popular hit and an instant cultural touchstone. As the film's director, Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), says, Gump has "no typical storytelling devices: no villain, no ticking clock, no burning fuse." Yet it has exploded at the North American box office. In its second week of release, when ticket sales for even the most robust hits drop perhaps 20%, Gump held...