Word: primed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looks I received on the street when people recognized my American accent--looks I don't usually get. It's in the shame British newspaper columnists evoke when they write of Britain teaming up with the United States to bomb Iraq. Most poignantly and most painfully, it's in Prime Minister Tony Blair's hint of reticence where there was none before when he speaks to his people about joining the United States in bombing Iraq, as if he cannot be as certain of his ally in world affairs as he once...
...usual suspects" may be too numerous to round up. You don't have to look far to find Pakistanis with the necessary motive to carry out Saturday's assassination attempt against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Indeed, the man who led Pakistan through its nuclear testing last year even may have brought Saturday's assassination attempt upon himself. "His clampdowns on opposition have created a very dangerous situation where the only outlet for dissent is in the form of acts of violence such as the one we've just seen," says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk...
...dinars they have managed to earn this day, to plot and scheme how they will bring in a few more in a life of meager survival. What happens will happen. They have known neither peace nor prosperity for more than 18 years. Who are they to disagree when Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz comes on the TV news to say it matters little whether Iraqis die from crushing U.N. sanctions or deadly American bombs...
...first U.S. President to set foot on Palestinian-controlled soil, Clinton still hoped that once he got back home there would be time to sit down with House G.O.P. centrists and bid for their support. But the strain was building. At his joint press conference in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his answers were weary and sometimes brisk to the point of anger. And now his aides were telling him that impeachment, which everyone believed was impossible just a few weeks earlier, was inevitable. Undecided Republicans were falling into the party line...
...year brought a few things that we knew were inevitable. The stock market got bigger. More people shopped online. Y2K is now a year closer. Nevertheless, a few promises of better living, like digital TV and high-speed home access to the Internet, still aren't ready for prime time. Click through to see why America Online's purchase of Netscape, though included, didn't even rate a Top 10 listing...