Word: opened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flight. But the threat of ice buildup forced ICO Global to use more fuel than anticipated to stay above the Himalayan clouds, and with sluggish winds pushing them along at 50 mph -- less than half the speed needed to reach Europe -- the success of the mission is still an open question...
...HAPPINESS Todd Solondz sees the pursuit of happiness as a quest open to all souls, especially doomed ones. With unblinking wit and guile he paints hell as a place very like New Jersey, where an 11-year-old boy has an urgent sex chat with his loving father, a pedophile. Has tenderness ever been so frightening...
...newsweekly, I naturally need the biggest, fastest, scariest computer in the land. And since my company is buying, damn the expense. I require video and 3-D cards to run the coolest games...er, spreadsheets; at least 96 megabytes of RAM so I can keep half a dozen programs open at once; a 17-in. monitor so I can see it all and a 10-gigabyte hard drive to store it. Also, stereo speakers with a subwoofer that rumbles like the voice of God, just to annoy my cats...
...declining. Beginning early in the new year, we intend to release the name and picture of one person a month convicted of soliciting for sex on the streets of our city. While foreign policy experts are worried about 'no-fly zones' in certain areas, I want to create 'no-open-fly zones' in certain areas of my city...
...barely risen in recent years, the average cost of health plans will go up 7% in 1999, thanks to money-losing managed-care companies and high drug prices. Some premiums may rise 20%, and the self-employed face jumps of up to 40%. One possible remedy: before the current open-enrollment season ends, earmark part of each paycheck for a tax-free medical savings account...