Word: savioring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would eventually be selected as part of the development corridor leading to the airport. "Despite all the millions of profits they were showing on paper, M.D.C. and Silverado had been running on empty for a long time, and they looked at potential profits from the new airport as a savior," says a former key employee of M.D.C.'s housing...
...most astounding and disgraceful paradoxes about Harvard is that a quite frankly second-rate president, John F. Kennedy '40, has a whole graduate school named after him, while Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, arguably the savior of Western civilization, goes unrecognized here, save for a portrait on the second floor of the Union...
...announcement, even claiming on a TV show that he had not made a decision to run for President. "I just want to provoke a discussion to accelerate reforms," he said. But the backtracking only prompted many Poles to wonder whether Walesa had been transformed from the country's savior to an ambitious political spoiler...
...Eastern Europe breaks free of Moscow's grip and the Soviet Union enjoys unprecedented openness, the espionage world is undergoing its own changes. -- A mistimed bid for the presidency leaves Poles wondering if Walesa is still a savior, or just an ambitious political spoiler. -- A hunger for independence in Soviet Georgia. -- Peru's surprising election...
Hero. Unifier. Healer. Savior. Could any one man -- let alone one who has been cut off from the flow of daily life for more than 27 years -- live up to such billing? Nelson Mandela did not disappoint last week as he walked out of 10,000 days in prison right into the thick of South African politics...