Word: oblivion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With one lucky bounce, Houston exorcised a decade's worth of playoff bricks. Smith's four missed lay-ups against Chicago, Starks's would-be championship-winner against the Rockets and Ewing's failed runner against Indiana faded into oblivion with one make...
...something they had no part in? Would the pre-frosh who had originally acquired the alcohol have their standing here next year thrown into jeopardy? Would the hosts be the victims of disciplinary action for not monitoring their pre-frosh's every action, thus letting her drink herself into oblivion...
...problems of migration and refugees, Fritz's "postcard from oblivion," are more pronounced than many people realize and will not disappear anytime soon. From 1989 to the mid '90s more than 50 million people were violently displaced from their homelands and much more than twice that amount left for economic reasons. Citing fears form the failure of Vietnam as haunting the U.S. and preventing it from assuming a larger role as peacekeeper in the world, Fritz suggests a possible solution being the creation of a "special military branch for the sole purpose of enforcing peace agreements." With the recent success...
This is Zhu territory, right on the edge between disgrace and success, between oblivion and celebrity, between smiling self-confidence and apoplectic fury at incompetence and corruption. "I've seen documents detailing corruption involving local leaders," says a Beijing official. "On the margins is Zhu Rongji's terse inscription: CHE (Fire him!)." When TIME wrote last October that his wings had been burned by being too ambitious with reforms, Zhu sent a message through former U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills: "Tell TIME my wings are still strong...
Since being bounced from the Senate last fall, New York Republican AL D'AMATO has hardly slunk into oblivion. Instead, he's leading the rewarding life of pundit-about-town, with the requisite gig as a commentator (Fox News Channel) and rumored romance with a blond (Sex in the City author Candace Bushnell). Last week he announced his latest venture: "Dear Alfonse," a political advice column for George magazine, the publication edited by JOHN KENNEDY JR. Asked who could use some advice these days, D'Amato offers, "The House Republicans. I'd tell them not to let their emotions carry...