Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minutes onstage. Poetri leads out with Preacher, a soul-stirring pitch against hypocrisy. I'm next. I've never faced a crowd so big. I like it. And they like me. My score of 28.9 pulls us into second place behind New York, where we stay until the last round. Dallas needs a 29.4 to tie. It's not an easy score to get. Backstage we assure one another that we've won second place. Then Dallas sends off a raucous group piece about wanting to be a black, gay, redneck superhero. The crowd goes wild, chanting...
...markets. These young tigers do not yet have the kind of social and business structures they need to build stable, prosperous capitalism. The ultimate effect on the U.S. remains to be seen. Ironically, the hit from Russia may free the Federal Reserve to lower U.S. rates, kicking off another round of strong domestic growth...
...core of the Yeltsin regime, a vacuum of power and an absence of leadership. Yeltsin seems to be President in name only, a figure so diminished that he was forced onto national TV last Friday to insist, "I'm not going to resign." The merry-go-round of Prime Ministers bespeaks the destructively ad hoc nature of the country's governance. No wonder Russians and the rest of the world were left wondering anxiously last week, Is anyone in charge here...
...most catastrophic consequence of the Big One, though, won't be property damage; it will be loss of life. It could easily have happened already, in fact, except for pure dumb luck. The Weather Channel and CNN's round-the-clock coverage notwithstanding, hurricane forecasting is not as precise as people like to believe. Storms are capricious. Indeed, the National Hurricane Center's warnings, issued 24 hours before landfall, are subject to a 90-mile error in either direction...
Journalists' shameful secret is that we love being spun. The networks vie for the privilege of having the next round of lies uttered on their particular Sunday talk show. It's called "advancing the story." Correspondents, only human, are flattered to be leaked upon by important people. Spinning gives journalists something to interpret. If politicos ever started saying it straight, reporters would have nothing to be knowing about...