Word: moment
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...most telling moment in the campaign came during the second debate, when Dukakis was unable to name his personal heroes, Peretz said. "One begins to think that this man's only hero is really himself...
...former college-football tackle had gone as far as most "car guys" are traditionally permitted to go at GM: the presidency, serving under one of the financial executives who have dominated the chairman's job. But at the moment, Stempel, 55, is the leading candidate to succeed chairman Roger Smith, who must retire at 65 in July 1990. The prospect of an engineer taking charge for only the second time in GM's 80-year history is providing a much needed morale boost for many dealers and employees. "He can talk about automobiles," says Carl Sewell, a Cadillac dealer...
...third term in the Philippine House of Representatives by a neighbor, Julio Nalundasan. When the victor flaunted this triumph in a humiliating manner, Ferdinand, who had been a member of his university's shooting team, hid in the orchard one night outside Nalundasan's home and at an opportune moment coolly fired two shots from a long-barreled .22-cal. pistol. Ferdinand was found guilty of murder but was eventually freed by the Supreme Court of the Philippines -- after an intervention, Seagrave says, by the ever helpful Judge Chua...
These are variations on motherhood's worst-case scenario: you turn your back for a moment or make, under pressure of conflicting emotions, what seems to you only a minor error in judgment, and suddenly your child is snatched from you. For Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep) in A Cry in the Dark, the loss is permanent: she never sees her baby again, alive or dead. For Anna Dunlap (Diane Keaton) in The Good Mother, the outcome is not quite so cruel: she faces losing custody of her daughter Molly, but not the child's death. Yet both mothers find themselves...
...final warning of a government clampdown came last month from Home Affairs Minister Stoffel Botha. It meant that the regime could close the Weekly Mail at any moment. Last week Botha did just that, barring publication of the small (circ. 25,000), liberal, antiapartheid tabloid for four weeks. In a statement released in Pretoria, Botha accused the Mail of "causing a threat to the safety of the public or to the maintenance of public order...