Word: open
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earliest memory of Monica Seles is turning on the TV when I was ten and seeing a tiny 15 year-old girl romping around and grunting away at the French Open, having her way with a much more experienced Steffi Graf. No fear, no nerves, no intimidation. Just pure intensity. I've been a fan ever since...
...Seles confused Steffi. Suddenly, Steffi found herself overpowered for the first time. She couldn't keep up with the lethal combination of two-fisted groundstrokes and relentless pace. As the rivalry intensified, Seles gradually obtained the stranglehold. After wining the Australian Open in 1993 over Graf, it seemed that Steffi simply couldn't challenge...
...What seems really weird to me is that on American Airlines, you can open up their magazine, and there it is: your horoscope. It's very funny, they have a very flamboyant sort of a wild guy writing these things, and it's entertaining. But on the other hand, what's keeping the airplane up? It seems so wacky to me, that an enterprise that depends on an understanding of the physical world, and requires people to have confidence in their ability to do so, at the same time have this sort of mysticism...
...doctors. Bliley says he wants to inform consumers about doctors with questionable records - ranging from sexual assault to failure to correctly fill out a license renewal form - by passing legislation that would require the information to be made available to the general public. At present, the Data Bank is open to hospital administrators, licensing boards and HMOs. The Data Bank, established 10 years ago, was opened in large part to keep track of physicians convicted of crimes in one state who simply cross state lines to duck their criminal records. Because regulation of docs rests in the hands...
...President Clinton isn't the only player constrained by domestic political concerns - WTO membership has become a flash point in the epic struggle between Chinese hard-liners and reformists for control of the country's economy. The reformers, led by Premier Zhu, hope to use the strict open-market conditions attached to WTO membership as a crowbar with which to open up China's economy. But hard-liners, fearing the social unrest that rapid reforms may bring, are digging in their heels against some of the conditions demanded by the industrialized nations. Despite renewed negotiation efforts, the changing domestic political...