Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much empty space to fill. Along Highway 50 the distance between towns is bridgeable only by marathon road trips and the most powerful AM radio signals. The big station out of Reno is KOH, which promotes itself with the slogan "From the High Sierra we take down the High and Mighty." The drive-time talk jock (out here it's always drive time) is the inflammatory Brian Maloney, who makes Rush Limbaugh sound like Alan Alda. Maloney tends to open his monologues with the question that prefaces most conspiracy rants: "Don't you find it interesting that...?" For Maloney...
Serious negotiations began soon thereafter, as the parties moved through one marathon session after the next, taking the talks on the road from New York City to Chicago to Washington. Almost from Day One, the talks threatened to break up over any one of the three most contentious issues: punitive damages, document disclosure and government oversight of tobacco products. The first signs of serious trouble struck April 21, when Manhattan attorney Herbert Wachtell, leading the squadron of tobacco-company lawyers, demanded, "There has to be an end to the vilification." When Harshbarger calmly responded that there would be no blanket...
That was the easy part. Nobody, not even the biotech industry, expected Washington to give the green light to human xerography. What is much more difficult--and what preoccupied the committee in six marathon sessions and countless E-mail messages--is where to draw the line on cloning research...
...enjoying a Golden Age of prosperity? It gets harder to doubt it every day. Certainly the panel of six leading economists recently assembled by TIME agrees that all signs are pointing to the kind of good times that have traditionally come along only once every few decades. The marathon expansion that has created nearly 14 million new jobs since 1991 is already the country's third longest on record--and still appears to have legs. With no end in sight, the current recovery could claim the No. 1 spot by the turn of the century. "This is perhaps the best...
...current roommate and I were sitting in the Union freshman year," Hwang said after the ceremony. "She bet me a dollar that I wouldn't run the Boston Marathon...I never thought a marathon was something I could do, but I finished it and won the dollar...I think I spent it on a Coke...