Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things get much worse for his campaign, Dole will start waving his wizened arm like a magic wand, frantically trying to capture the delegates he needs to win in San Diego. He will tell and retell the story of how his right arm was paralyzed. If his poll numbers continue to slip, he will begin adding tasteless details about shrapnel fragments, and finally, he will start choking into tears as he recounts the tale of his sacrifice...
...Pliny pattern persists. The scientific side of the observer's mind demands objective evidence, as the great naturalist usually did; but the brain's mythopoeic, magic-thinking side is lured to marvels--to alchemy, to spells, to bat people on the moon or aliens on other planets. Can these matters be addressed with a whole mind? Can the two instincts of the brain--Einstein and Elvis-sighting--be made to fit together like compatible spoons...
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...MAGIC JOHNSON, multiplex mogul, investor and sometime coach, is coming back to basketball. Maybe. Rumors of Johnson's return have been rebounding since he retired in 1991. But this time the omens are promising. Johnson has talked to the nba and practiced with the Lakers over the past two weeks. As long as Magic transfers his 5% share of the team to someone else, the nba would have no objections. Nor, oddly enough, would Lakers coach Del Harris. The call rests with Johnson, who is not about to spill any beans: "Let's just say I haven't decided...
...more, sometimes much more. For boosting the Magic Kingdom's stock price 28% and orchestrating a $19 billion merger (the second largest in U.S. history) with Capital Cities/ABC, Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner took home a $14.8 million compensation package, outpacing his prior year's pay nearly 40%. Campbell Soup chairman David Johnson savored a raise to $6.6 million, a jump of 150%, as Campbell stock climbed more than 36%, to 60. After Rockwell International's stock price leaped nearly 50%, to 527/8, CEO Donald Beall pocketed a tidy $5.5 million, a 45% bump over '94. Charles Walgreen...