Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Security Council put off a decision on whether to send U.N. inspectors to the plant. "I don't see what the purpose of a fact-finding study would be," said U.S. representative Peter Burleigh. "We already have credible information that fully justifies the strike." And as if by magic, that information appeared all over Tuesday's media. But the story creates more queries than it answers -- such as, why didn't the U.S. strike at a second Sudanese factory where it says Iraqi nerve gas scientists were working? And won't there still be traces of EMPTA in the Khartoum...
...life wanting to be President and being told time and again that you could be. The favored child, you get the master bedroom. Your teachers call you a diamond in the rough. When you make mistakes, you charm the facts and the language into doing your bidding, and like magic, the problem goes away. You can have whatever you want. And when you reach the crowning glory, Hail to the Chief, you find that your luck and timing are so peerless that you get to preside over the most peaceful, prosperous era in the country's history. You dream...
...test the resilience of the office: following the disgrace of Nixon and the disappointments of Ford and Carter, books about the presidency dismissed the job as an empty chair. Reagan showed what conviction and charisma can do. Even those who hated his policies acknowledged his mastery of the magic. Someone else will surely come along to restore the mystique; but it will take more than charm and skill in our future Presidents to undo the damage...
...very serviceable Camp Terrorism scene in Patriot Games (1992), and some great Sudan footage in Khartoum (1966). Heck, I'm sure Pfizer would have let us blow up its factory, if only to drive up the price of Viagra. With a little help from Industrial Light and Magic (pro bono for Hollywood Bill, I'm sure), it all would have looked fine...
...after six months, you say? True, the stock is where it was when you started buying: $20. But because you invested $100 each month, you would have accumulated 34 shares at an average price of just $17.65, and be up by the annual equivalent of 27%. That's the magic of steady investing, also known as "dollar-cost averaging." You automatically buy more shares when prices are low and fewer when they are high, driving down your average cost per share...