Word: moment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...military continues to pour billions of dollars into weapons that may be needed eventually but are not needed at the moment. The Navy wants to spend more than $2 billion a copy for a new class of 30 attack submarines even as it scraps dozens of existing attack subs, many designed to stay at sea another decade. The Air Force is dispatching hundreds of fully functional warplanes to its Arizona boneyard while it pays $188 million apiece for 339 single-seat F-22 warplanes...
...weakened. Of the 45 big ships now operating, only the least efficient nine would be bought out of service, partially at taxpayer expense. "What this does," Dorry says, "is institutionalize factory fishing, not ban it. What it doesn't do is deal with overfishing." She is silent for a moment. Then: "No. No, the bus tour wasn't wasted. At least more people know there's a problem. The fight is in Congress now. It's winnable. We're going after them...
There was a moment during last week's emotion-filled White House reception for Nelson Mandela when I felt as if I had traveled back in time. It came when the Rev. Bernice King, who looks and sounds remarkably like her sainted father Martin Luther King Jr., likened Bill Clinton to the biblical King David, who kept his throne despite his sinful dalliance with Bathsheba because he atoned. Offering the President her understanding and her forgiveness, she intoned, "It's time, I think, for us to leave our President alone." The audience of African-American religious leaders broke into...
...week surrounding the New Year (from Dec. 26 to Jan. 3), a World Festival of Praise will be held in Suva. Millennium Hibiscus Celebrations, beginning Dec. 21, will honor Fiji's ethnic diversity, culminating in the coronation of the Hibiscus Millennium Queen in the capital at the moment when 1999 becomes...
...responding to it. "There's a moment," she says, "when you see Sethe's mother in the hanging scene. You see her eyes. To see that come alive was breathtaking." She was finally pleased and surprised by the achievement. "They did something I thought they never could: to make the film represent not the abstraction of slavery but the individuals, the domestic qualities and consequences...