Word: longer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this, at heart, is how Yeltsin's tragedy has become Russia's. He is no longer a man of the people--certainly not in the political sense. His once broad-reaching vision, for a Russia where all people had a vote and a share in economic prosperity, has been replaced by a narrow and dangerous selfishness. Yeltsin had the political wiles to avoid being impeached this time, but whether he deserved to be impeached or not is still a question many Russians are unhappily discussing...
...year-old iconoclast who became Daimler-Benz chairman in 1995, had already slashed the company's divisions from 35 to 25--taking tens of thousands of jobs along the way. It was an outrageous move in a country where labor rules. Schrempp wanted a new empire that would no longer depend on luxury cars, which were becoming prohibitively expensive to produce...
Trends come and go, stars wink and fade out. How long will this new crop hold out? "It's impossible to predict who will be a pop star forever," says Wayne Isaak, executive vice president of music and talent for VH1. "But [Martin, Anthony and Lopez] could have a longer career than most. Even if their pop following wanes a bit, they will always have this Latin fan base that can keep them playing Madison Square Garden and working with the best producers...
Finally, a few months ago, a group of Linux hackers released a graphical user interface called Gnome that was supposed to make the system much easier to use. I could wait no longer. I paid $80 for Red Hat 6.0, a two-CD distribution that includes--since you're paying--a copy of Gnome and a lot of extras, and I hunkered down to give my machine a new brain...
...Then he went on to explain what he and his colleagues had found. They were following up a clue from the poultry industry, which has long known that baby chicks grow faster if you leave the lights on 24 hours a day. It turns out that their eyeballs grow longer as well--and long eyeballs is a pretty good description of what causes nearsightedness, also called myopia, in humans...