Word: long
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glad we won both [games], and that's just great for us right now," Delaney-Smith said. "I don't even care about my 250th. Anyone who's been coaching as long as I have, it's bound to happen. It's the law of averages. I don't know that it was that great a feat...
...retreated behind the haughty protective screen of her First Ladyhood. "It is unfortunate," she sniffed, "that there are any questions about what was a very straightforward occasion." A First Lady can get away with that kind of arrogance; a candidate can't. As she told a friend not long before her West Bank visit, she has been in the wheelhouse for all 10 of her husband's campaigns, but "it's different when you're the candidate...
...pull off that kind of Maoist dazzle, for he's clearly driven by an ambition to be as imperial as he can be. They're just a sign that in rapidly changing China, Jiang is still not ready to put on the crown. In the country's long tradition, an Emperor needs to inspire awe, tinged with a dash of fear, in his subjects. In a less-than-terrifying display of chumminess, Jiang celebrated his WTO coup by taking Barshefsky to a private swan viewing...
...free rein to investigate in Egypt. As Administration diplomats worked overtime to calm tempers and encourage cooperation, NTSB officials retreated. By Friday, chairman James Hall was blaming unauthorized news leaks for "flat wrong" speculation that "caused pain" to victims' families and had "done a disservice" to a long-standing international friendship. But despite the diplomatic delicacy, Hall, the Justice Department and FBI officials remain determined to pursue, on their own if need be, the hypothesis that someone deliberately plunged the plane into the sea. "It is not a question of whether we are in it or not in it," says...
...related cause for the crash. If there was some mysterious emergency, the response from the cockpit is still baffling. According to the voice recording, a relief pilot identified as Gamil el-Batouti, who normally formed part of the "cruise crew" that spells the pilot and co-pilot during the long, dull hours of an ocean crossing, asked to begin his shift early, barely half an hour into the flight. The captain, 57-year-old veteran pilot Ahmed el-Habashi, agreed to let the highly experienced el-Batouti, 59, replace co-pilot Adel Anwar, 36, in the right-hand seat...