Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public relations terms, it was a costly victory. There he goes again, the standard argument ran, imposing his sectarian morality on a world already hungry and facing billions of new mouths to feed in the coming decades. One Spanish critic said the Pope had "become a traveling salesman of demographic irrationality." Says dissident Swiss theologian Hans Kung: "This Pope is a disaster for our church. There's charm there, but he's closed-minded." The British Catholic weekly the Tablet summed up Cairo, "Never has the Vatican cared less about being unpopular than under Pope John Paul...
...after Chechen forces virtually ran out of ammunition, Russian planes and artillery unleashed a bitter offensive on Grozny, the capital of the separatist republic. The offensive killed 24 civilians, including a American freelance photographer. Scenes of carnage dotted the city after the first daylight air raid in the civil war -- a sign that Russia is now pushing to end what has become a quagmire. But a speedy end to the fighting would come despite fierce Chechen resistance, overwhelming domestic opposition and turmoil in the Russian military command. Several Russian generals have disobeyed orders or sharply criticized Defense Minister Pavel Grachev...
...again in September to $399, sweetening the deal for his hardware manufacturers by giving them a couple of shares of 3DO stock for every machine they sold. He hounded game developers to write more software and, when they didn't respond fast enough, started developing his own. When money ran short, he put up $12.5 million from his own savings...
...climbed higher. Yet Citron, whom associates describe as self-confident to the point of cockiness, stuck to his game plan, believing rates would inevitably go lower. "He had a technique that worked for 15 years, and he didn't see the cycle change," says James Moorlach, an accountant who ran against Citron this year...
...Dead for sure," one insider put it. The dinosaur everyone loves to hate was a "one-year phenom" that ran headlong into extinction this season, thanks to overlicensing (the Purple One's image appeared on every product you can think of), a very narrow demographic base and "parental revolt...