Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tale of mob lawyers, studio reptiles, coke dealers, starlets, domineering directors and the fast-talking operator at the center of it all. Aside from taking a few swipes at Ryan O'Neal, Francis Ford Coppola and Sharon Stone, Evans mostly tells stories on himself, charting his rise, fall and struggle to rebound with a keen staccato style usually found in hard-boiled mysteries...
...even more modest outcome -- a piecemeal collection of insurance changes. And if major changes don't get through this Congress, don't expect reform to find a warmer welcome in the next one, where Republican numbers -- and the general air of partisan belligerence -- can be counted on to rise...
...equally possible that the refugee tide will rise again when the seas subside, until it eventually overwhelms any facilities that can be built in Guantanamo, or in Panama and the 11 other Caribbean, Central and South American countries that the U.S. is asking to help take some refugees off its hands. (They had agreed earlier to take some Haitians, but the U.S. found it unnecessary to send any.) As loudly as the U.S. proclaims that it will never let any of those interned in Guantanamo enter the American mainland, many Cubans preparing to flee, as well as those already...
...police crime lab withheld some for future testing. In a ruling released last Friday, Judge Lance Ito acknowledged that the prosecution's handling of the blood evidence was a "picture of confusion, miscommunication and noncommunication between the prosecuting attorneys and LAPD." But, he said, the performance "does not rise to the level of bad faith or misconduct...
Meanwhile, all those aging couch potatoes concerned about their heart might as well tune out the cacophony of opinions that results from incomplete knowledge and focus on a few unchanging verities. The reputations of margarine and soybean oil may rise and fall many times over. But butter is still bad. Fruits and vegetables are still good. And most scientists still agree that Americans eat too much fat of all kinds...