Word: lightful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brothers for several years shared a bachelor pad in Coral Gables, Fla., but their first major business venture together was a $118 million plan to grow and export hazelnuts from the former Soviet republic of Georgia. This seemed attractive in light of a booming Western demand for hazelnut-flavored confections. Along with Stephen Graham, Tony's sometime partner and an occasional advanceman for Mrs. Clinton, the brothers flew to Georgia in August to look over the operation...
...trail of the enzyme as well. And while Alzheimer's researchers offered the usual caveats, they seemed almost unanimously agreed that the identifying of the shadowy enzyme was not only a potential bonanza for drug companies but also the first really encouraging sign that there may yet be a light at the end of that long, dark tunnel called Alzheimer...
Rimmed by steep ridges and mountain shanties, the hamlet of Keystone, W. Va. (pop. 627), looks like a movie set left over from Coal Miner's Daughter. Main Street, all four blocks of it, has not a single traffic light. Yet the local bank in recent years has boasted one of the highest profit margins in the U.S., and reached $1 billion in assets in 1998. You might wonder how such a bank could thrive in one of the poorest counties in the U.S. And you'd be in good company, because bank examiners and the FBI wondered...
...hold, waiting to translate (die and take my body with me)." Last, a South Carolina minister said, "When we fully understand and accept the power of strenuous mental exercise to increase our capacity for works of genius, we may all ride through space on a beam of mental light and meet Einstein himself...
Hughes says he didn't see Jesus beckoning at the end of a tunnel of white light (although he claims to have seen Death opening his mouth). I would like to ask if he also didn't see Christ among the Aborigine family that found him, the Bidyadanga people who chanted to keep him alive, the Filipina nurse who wept for him, his friend Danny who raced to save his life, the police and the medics who got to the scene, the medical personnel who decided to fly him to Royal Perth Hospital, the people who operated for 13 hours...