Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...either National Security Adviser, Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense. She would be destined to be--not only because of her race and gender but also because of her wit and spark--a politico-celebrity superstar. "She doesn't seem to try to push herself forward in any particular way," says former Secretary of State George Shultz, who is also advising Bush. "But she has such a level of capability...that she winds up getting asked to do all sorts of things...
...then I think about my smiling baby daughter, four months old. I realize that everything I did I had to do, or I wouldn't have this particular child. And if that meant taking a pass on the greatest creation of wealth in the history of the world, then I played it right...
...MADELEINE NASH has spent the past 15 years at TIME chasing hurricanes and other science stories. This week the senior correspondent, based in Chicago, reveals why Hurricane Floyd, a huge storm at its height, will pale compared with those that lie ahead. Climate and weather are of particular interest to Nash, who is currently writing a book on those subjects. "Hurricanes," she says, "are one of the great forces of nature. We keep trying to bend them to our will, and we keep trying to make them conform to our own preconceived ideas about how nature should behave. But nature...
...national attention focused on students' heavy alcohol use by the report was rekindled during in the next few years with each account of a student's alcohol-related death. A spate of such tragedies occurred on college campuses throughout the country. One tragedy in particular, the death from acute alcohol poisoning of Scott Krueger at an MIT fraternity, caught the national consciousness. The fact that this could happen even at an academically elite institution meant that it could happen anywhere...
...particular, seniors remember pixie-like gymnast Mary Lou Retton...