Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...equal to the challenge? In an instant, without warning, the present had become the unthinkable future. Was there hope in that future, and if so, where did hope...
...blindered arrogance of the present to think of the 1990s as the decade of technology? Every decade in the 75 years since TIME was founded has seen everyday life transformed by invention. Is the Internet more life transforming than household electricity? Or air travel? Or television, frozen food and microwave ovens (to defrost the frozen food...
During a stopover in Paris, Annan refused to fax the final seven-paragraph agreement to Washington, saying he wanted to present it formally to the whole Security Council. U.S. intelligence, however, came up with a bootleg copy of the agreement and delivered it to the White House early Monday. "As soon as we looked at it," says an official, "we knew where the problems were." It was not a vague compromise, as the U.S. had feared, nor had Saddam caved in completely...
...signed two contracts with Wang and then arranged for the organ broker to meet someone he said was a member of the board, but who was really an FBI agent in disguise. This time both Wang and Fu were present, and according to the federal complaint, Wang "discussed the methods by which Chinese prisoners are executed." (Amnesty International says that if corneas are needed, prisoners are shot in the chest; those who are slated to donate kidneys are shot in the head.) Fu also guaranteed that any lungs would come from nonsmokers. After haggling a bit over the price...
TIME regrets that it is fresh out of Saroyan news. All that the present editor [Charles MacArthur] of Theatre Arts knows about this crisis in American letters is that it occurred while he was in Europe and that he remains as ever Mr. Saroyan's most faithful...