Word: keel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bradley gave a charitable donation to the World Wildlife Fund in 1978. It's very possible that all the presidential candidates are judged by their family physicians to be in excellent physical and mental health. What does that tell the public? That it's unlikely George W. Bush will keel over during his term? That Al and Tipper Gore are, according to a private analyst, "happily married...
...done tinkering until this whole Y2K thing blows over. But just as certainly as the credit card bills will come due in January, the Fed will reevaluate its position in the next year, and may feel that another rate hike will be necessary to keep everything on an even keel. Still, January's a long way from now, and until then it looks as if the economic bar will definitely remain open...
...City. "But I did think it was strange that she could throw the ball all the way from one end of the court to another in 8th grade. And she was so skinny!" Says Vincent Cannizzaro, Holdsclaw's high school coach: "June's backing keeps her on an even keel...
...them for it. For some reason, the overreaction doesn't bother me as much coming from them. But from Mom, since she's always like that, whether I'm sick or well, I find it best to tell her that I'm great. Even if I'm about to keel over...
...looked as if Autissier might fare better this year. Despite early damage to her keel, mast and rudder, she had claimed the lead as the remaining 11 boats set out for Cape Horn and Uruguay. Hoping to gain time, Autissier opted for a southern route through what navigators call the Screaming 50s because of the violence of the seas. But one day as she was studying weather maps below, the autopilot misread the wind. The boat veered sharply and rolled over so quickly that Autissier barely had time to seal the cabin. "Everything was a wreck," she later told TIME...