Word: millennium
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While the economy has continued to thrive on his watch, Guinn has tried to leave Nevada with a broader and more solid foundation for the long-term future. Most notably, he established a Millennium Scholarship program to help high school graduates pay for college, and privatized the state's underfunded workers' compensation program--a move that took the $2 billion shortfall off Nevada's books and helped lower the insurance rates companies pay into the system. Along the way, Guinn helped fight the Federal Government's plan for a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain; moved to diversify Nevada...
...Zarqawi had his sights on Jordan long before the Iraq war. Jordanian officials accuse him of directing the so-called Millennium Plot to hit tourist sites, including the Radisson Hotel in Amman, on New Year's Eve 1999. Last year, a Jordanian court sentenced Zarqawi to death for instigating the assassination of an American diplomat in 2002. In 2004, Jordanian officials said they foiled a chemical bomb attack directed by Zarqawi that could have killed up to 20,000 people; he is currently standing trial in absentia for the plot...
Since the beginning of the new millennium, Providence, Rhode Island’s Load Records has been a staging ground for the new noise phalanx, with Lightning Bolt leading the vanguard...
...easily take the bait on buying back our youth. But if this was the case, they probably should have thought twice before they bastardized the source of all our happiness.Forget models in magazines. If My Little Pony needed lipo and a nose job to be successful in the new millennium, we have got some serious image problems on our hands, and it’s not the only identity crisis circulating. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have gotten the injection of aggression needed to lure little boys. Michelangelo, a party-dude-no-more, doesn’t even have eyes?...
...undisputed superstar for a quarter century, Amitabh Bachchan began to bomb. A succession of films bled money. Endorsements dried up. Even his company's 1996 production of the Miss World beauty pageant was plagued by protests from both Indian conservatives and feminists. By the turn of the millennium, Bachchan found himself $20 million in debt and staring obscurity in the face. "The industry thought he was finished," says Ram Gopal Varma, director of Bachchan's latest hit, Sarkar. So did Bachchan. "Every actor has to reconcile himself to the day when he is ignored," he tells TIME. "And that...