Word: moving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extremely sexist," she says. "It's difficult for women to move within...
...candidate's authenticity. So far, her attempts to turn herself into a New Yorker have been amateurish. When the Chicago native proclaimed herself a closet Yankees fan, when the Methodist disclosed her Jewish roots, when the advocate for poor children came out in favor of milk price supports--these moves made her seem craven, ham-fisted. When the progressive copied her husband's tactic of using party soft money to finance early TV spots, she looked no better than he. And when Bill Clinton granted clemency to a group of Puerto Rican terrorists--a move that some of Hillary...
...president of China's 1.3 billion people is already a management proposition from hell. But to become Emperor of China requires a mystical aura of power that can move mountains, change the weather and, these days at least, deal with pesky foreigners who want into your telecommunications market...
Last week President Jiang Zemin made a grab for imperial status by inking a World Trade Organization deal with the U.S. that will open China to free international trade for the first time in history. Along the way, 73-year-old Jiang had to move mountains of conservative opposition at home, change the atmospherics between Beijing and Washington, and, yes, deal with 100 million tangled telephone lines. By any measure, it was a monumental deal for China. But for Jiang it was even more--a bid to boost his reputation from that of polished technocrat to the more mythical status...
...Creator called them on their cell phones at 11:59 p.m. to say Armageddon was being postponed.The media may have a harder time explaining why they were so relentlessly hormonal about a year just because it had three zeroes in it. But the media usually just shrug and move briskly on to the next installment of the-end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it (Gotterdammerung...