Word: primed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here's what you get if you win a gold medal in Olympic figure skating: endorsement contracts from Snapple, Capezio and autoweb.com (an online car store), plus a deal for four prime-time skating specials with...
Here's what you get if you win the silver medal: an endorsement contract with Caress and a deal for four prime-time skating specials with...
...until late in the season, his friends say, that McGwire realized how significant breaking Roger Maris' record was. Never a baseball historian (when his Olympic team stopped in Cooperstown, N.Y., he got pizza), McGwire was surprised by the attention. "The thought of television changing the games to go prime time..." he says in wonderment. "The thought of almost every reporter in the country and almost the world watching one player--it's unheard-of." When McGwire, after hitting 70, said he was "in awe of myself," he wasn't trying to be cocky. He was just finally getting...
...Tuesday morning, Clinton, flanked by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, called his military advisers and Vice President Al Gore to discuss the Butler report. The group agreed air strikes were the right response. Clinton then got assurances of British participation from Prime Minister Tony Blair. At 10 p.m. Tuesday, Peter Burleigh, acting American ambassador to the U.N., called Annan and suggested he begin pulling U.N. personnel out of Iraq. When Annan consulted Berger on Wednesday morning, the National Security Adviser told him the situation was "very serious" but not that Clinton had already ordered...
...within the American military, there were private grumblings about the campaign's awkward timing. "Saddam has been kicking Bill Clinton in the teeth for more than five years," said an Army officer. "And we have to attack on the eve of his impeachment? Give me a break." Iraq Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz lashed out at UNSCOM for giving Washington an advance look at its report, calling Butler "a cheap pawn in the hands...