Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tyson's teeth Bite Me, Part II: in his bout with Evander Holyfield, Iron Mike chomped twice on the heavyweight champ's ear; he lost the fight and, for a year, his license to box. Poor Tyson: he should have tried team sports. Then he could kick a photographer, spit on refs, attack fans--and get a fat contract peddling overpriced sneakers to underprivileged kids...
...nominal 7%. (Administration officials insist that the most realistic accounting scheme makes the actual cutbacks lower; what's called 7% in Kyoto, they say, is really 3% at most.) After Gore twisted Hashimoto's arm, those were the numbers that stuck. Exhausted negotiators took an additional 10 hours to iron out the details--as Japanese workers hovered impatiently, waiting to set up for a trade show at Kyoto's International Conference Hall--but the American negotiating team never had to come back with a new proposal...
...market average ricocheted anxiously on every shred of news. The only figures on the rise were those for bankruptcies, unemployment and suicides. National confidence congealed into a deep gloom as headlines warned of the coming "Great Depression." The government that for so many decades guided the economy with an iron hand is floundering, seemingly at a loss for ways to yank the country out of its tailspin. Kazumi Ehara, an auto salesman in suburban Tokyo, speaks for many of his countrymen when he says, "The Japanese people have been told repeatedly by the government that the economy will get better...
...sight to behold and an image to cherish--a little country church, improbably fashioned out of glass and wrought iron, bobbing down an untamed river deep in the 19th century Australian wilderness. How in the world did it and the man delivering it--a nice, pious (if defrocked) clergyman named Oscar Hopkins (Ralph Fiennes)--end up in these unlikely precincts...
WINNIE MANDELA Talk about an Iron Lady. "Never apologize, never explain" is a bad policy. Plus, lose the jewelry...