Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew the key to the regatta would be consistency. Conditions were chang- ing constantly," Gill said...
...explains it all thusly: "I was 21 years old, trying to grow up and figure out who I was, and I didn't consciously think, 'Maybe I should be real low-key and stay in my house.' Instead I was like, 'I'm 21 and I can go out and have a great time and sort of experience the whole college life,' if you will. I made myself an easy target. But that was a really long time ago." That, of course, depends on your definition of "really long." (Last year she agreed to undergo anger-management counseling after breaking...
...With the negative G-force of some 200 million unemployed pulling at him, a sharp decline in exports and foreign investment, a change-resistant culture of corruption, and an unfriendly economic environment in the rest of Asia, Zhu has been forced to reverse or put on hold all his key reform policies. Mounting reports of labor unrest around the country terrified his comrades in the leadership, whose fear of luan--chaos--approaches the phobic. "With no functioning social-welfare net," argues a Chinese economist, Zhu's reforms were "suicidal...
According to a source close to his family, the Premier is still calm and "far from panicking," although he is concerned about the health of the American economy, since the U.S. is one of China's key trading partners. A visit to Washington is on the books for next spring. One thing Zhu may have in common with his probable host in the White House: a pair of visibly clipped wings...
...key to all this is water, whose conspicuous display and consumption is as important a sign of luxury, of control over Nature, to Vegas entrepreneurs as it was to the Umayyad caliphs who began building the fountains of the Alhambra on a dry hillside near Granada 12 centuries ago. Nobody grasps this better than Wynn. To install performing dolphins in huge saltwater tanks in a hotel in the Nevada desert seems, on the face of it, about as rational as filling a cruise ship with sand and camels, but it has its own value as spectacle. And nowhere in Vegas...