Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minutes slipped by--and air hissed from Vinogradov's limited supply--the leak stopped being a laughing matter, since a spacesuit rupture in a vacuum can be instantly fatal. Ultimately, Mission Control ordered the airlock repressurized and told the crew to scrounge up another glove and start all over...
...brother-diplomats. TIME's Washington correspondent Doug Waller explains: "The North Koreans put it to the State Department last night, 'Turn over the defectors if you want the talks to continue.' Of course the State Department said no." The ultimatum itself was very much expected. "It's a matter of saving face," says Waller...
Supporters argue that an approach that aims at people's hearts and focuses on spiritual renewal is better at turning troubled lives around, and there's some evidence for that. "No matter how much counseling, no matter how much social work we put into someone, until we give them something spiritual to fill that void, they won't really change," says the Rev. Ralph E. Williamson, a minister on the staff of the Mecklenburg County, N.C., department of social services with 23 years' experience in the field. "I always tell people that I can't bring salvation through the department...
...ruminates on the nature of temptation--"I'm playing Hamlet with my willpower (Should I or shouldn't I?)." The literary reference must suffice to convey his torment because he coyly declines to reveal the snakes in his Garden. Instead, he breaks the Kennedy-clan mantra of loyalty no matter what the crime by observing that cousin Joseph, who tried to annul his first marriage, and cousin Michael, who dallied with the baby-sitter, had become the "poster boys for bad behavior." Being just a poster boy, after all, is so much seemlier...
...really good." Eddie, a small-time punk, is away when the pregnant Maureen is assaulted by a neighbor. Driven nuts by the news of her beating, he shoots a paramedic and is hospitalized for 10 years. In the interim, Maureen has married Joey (John Travolta), but that doesn't matter to Eddie when he gets out. He just wants his honey back...