Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...additional requirement proved to be a deal-breaker for this round of negotiations. ?The Chinese believe they are already taking a big enough risk -- competition -- by seeking to join the WTO,? says FlorCruz. They are not willing to also shoulder the risk of a U.S. veto over their economic decisions. Meanwhile, the administration -- already on the defensive over allegations of Chinese nuclear spying and Chinese campaign contributions -- is concerned about getting burned in Congress over anything Chinese and wants to look tough. U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky showed up on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell the American hard line...
...attack missions--are hurling more firepower at Yugoslavia. B-1 Lancers are letting go with 500-pounders and the Combined Effects Munition, a particularly macabre bomb filled with 202 tank-busting, flesh-shredding bomblets that can turn acres of land into plowed fields. B-2s, flying 31-hour round trips from Missouri, are dropping more discriminating satellite-guided bombs across wide areas of Serbian-held territory...
...star of the future) assumes center screen and is just as beguiling. Wolf is delightfully disdainful of getting an ear kiss from the narc's free-love wife: "And that ear thing. I have Q-Tips, thank you." Olyphant is also an accomplished hunk. In fact, why not round up the entire cast for a sequel? Call it Keep Going...
...used to remind Pat that under his plan an applicant whose family had serious bidding potential might have difficulty getting in on the original round of uncompensated acceptances. I can imagine the sort of conversation some Ivy League admissions director might have one day with, say, Bill Gates: "Well, yes, Mr. Gates, it's true that a boy with 1600 SAT scores who was first in his class and the star of the football team--particularly a boy with that sort of talent on the cello, not to speak of the courage and presence of mind to save six nuns...
...Serbian twilight, they took us to see Slobodan Milosevic in his presidential residence. He had reddish, piggy eyes set in a big round head. He wore a brush cut that looked like static electricity firing up from his pink skull. Milosevic settled complacently onto a sofa, with Wiesel on his right, and cocked one leg onto the cushion, showing an expanse of hairless, pale calf above his black sock...