Word: moment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While he said there was no defining moment that shaped his career plans, the Vietnam War and the activism of his generation inspired him. According to Capuano, however, this idealism has faded...
...possible. I just never felt comfortable here," says Korhonen, who had never met Shepard. "When I walked out of the apartment to my car, it was, 'Oh, my God.' This could have happened to any one of us. It could have been me. It was the most terrifying moment. You know this is real; you go out into the dark; and it's everything adding...
...shrink 30% for the year, the government has embarked on a huge program of domestic spending to stimulate demand. "It is the old pattern in China--three steps forward and two steps back," says Joe Zhang, head of China research for HSBC Securities in Hong Kong. "At the moment we are backtracking." Says Andy Xie, chief China economist for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Hong Kong: "If they continue, they will end up renationalizing the economy. And that is not the way China needs...
What made the moment indicative of Torre's managerial competence was first that there was nothing overtly logical about his decision to remove Wells; he was simply following a pattern of using middle relievers that had worked in the past. Yet Wells took the decision amiably (it turned out to be correct). The huge, unkempt, Babe-Ruth-worshipping Wells, who is an emotional transparency, had an early-season run-in with Torre when he openly berated fellow players on the field for making an error. Torre informed Wells that teammates don't do that. From that point on, Wells...
...spokesman, who was among the guests on the show. "I would like to thank all those taking part for everything that they have said and done," the Pope told the show's shocked host, Bruno Vespa. Visibly moved and more than a little flummoxed, Vespa took a moment to collect himself before finally murmuring, "Even journalists have a soul every so often." Sometimes it just takes a little papal intervention to prove...