Word: meres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than twenty years, unevenly spaced and heavily concentrated in the days of the narrator's extreme youth, reveals information as the narrator learns it, Deane writes with all the immediacy and intrusive intimacy of a diarist, and even the wildest, most implausible developments in the tale seem like mere fact when conveyed in his narrator's steady voice...
...quarter of a million dollars) and delivered it to the address on the label. The men who answered the doorbell were arrested. Dennis Paxinos, the Yellowstone County attorney, requested that the men's bail be set at $250,000, but the judge involved reduced the sum to a mere $1,000. Paxinos publicly called the decision "asinine." Within a few hours of his release, one of the suspects was back in jail on another charge...
...Russia combined have more than 34,000 warheads and have performed more than 1,700 nuclear tests. Yet they condemn a country that has a mere 65 nuclear warheads. This debate has little to do with nonproliferation and much to do with the perceived threat to international powers. ROSS HOOKER Neuenburg, Germany...
...mere possibility of such a Clinton-Jiang agreement has officials in Taipei frazzled. China hopes to use better relations with the U.S. as bait, to entice Washington into a joint effort to put pressure on Taiwan. Taiwan is worried that some arm-twisting could be coming. "We believe the U.S. should not discuss the three nos with Beijing," says Chen Chien-jen, director-general of the Government Information Office in Taipei. Adds Vice Foreign Minister David Lee: "We don't want this written down because we don't want Beijing to interpret what independence means...
Some people have dismissed Windows 98--The new operating system from Microsoft that goes on sale next week--as little more than a bug fix. Don't believe it: if Windows 98 is a mere bug fix, then so was adding a fourth wheel to the automobile. This is an operating system that's finally stable. My computer used to crash more than a three-wheeled car. Since installing Windows 98 two weeks ago, it's run smoothly, perkily and reliably. Best of all, it has yet to freeze, or even shiver...