Word: rolled
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...roll call of walking wounded extends further. Boris Yeltsin in Russia and Poland's Lech Walesa were heroes in opposition, but in power have revealed feet of clay. Deng Xiaoping in China is on his last legs, with no sign so far that anyone of comparable vision will succeed him. Felipe Gonzalez, the boy wonder of Spain a decade ago, barely squeaked by in national elections last month and is still struggling to form a minority government. In New Delhi a press commentary calls P.V. Narasimha Rao "the Prime Muddler of India...
...financing America's recovery, the banks mainly invested their funds -- on which they were paying a bargain-basement 2% or so -- in risk-free Treasury bonds that yielded 7%. That left bank officers with little to do except put their feet on their desks and watch the interest roll...
Clinton's latest approach to his economic plan is designed to make his colleagues on the Hill take some of the heat as they search for a compromise. "You want to let this thing roll on its own," explained one senior Administration official, "because you don't know where it's going." The ( problem, however, is that effective control of Clinton's economic plan has now passed from the White House to Washington's army of special interests. The dismemberment of his energy tax is a case study in how difficult it has been for Clinton to make good...
...nearly so hairy, though, as a later scene in which he clutches a ladder dangling from a helicopter as it crashes into a cliff. Or a sequence in which Stallone and a hood roll down a sharp incline together. "We were going 200, 300 yds. straight down -- sheer face," Sly recalls. "You don't know if there's a branch or a hidden jagged rock under the snow. That really worried...
With his Ricky Nelson profile, Roy Orbison pipes and Elvis Presley moves, Chris Isaak could easily be dismissed as a pretender to the retro throne, a rockabilly Milli Vanilli coasting on his looks and the popular pining for the spirit of rock 'n' roll past. But as anyone who has listened to his records or seen him perform knows, Isaak is the genuine article: a pompadoured anachronism who grew up in the blue-collar cow town of Stockton, California, listening to Dean Martin, Louis Prima and Hank Williams Senior. By putting a cutting-edge gloss on a vintage 1950s...