Word: send
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China" stopgap was still on. "This is tricky for the U.S.," says Dowell. "They want to support Taiwan?s democratic government and capitalist economy, but this is so dear to China?s heart that jumping in would be very bad for relations." To calm them down, the U.S. might send the communists a reassuring reminder of some truths about democracies: Leaders and their policies change often, and election-year rhetoric is almost always meaningless...
...more about the V chip, see the vchipeducation.org website. You can send Amy an e-mail at timefamily@aol.com
...Maine. I was sure White would welcome the visit--after all, I reasoned, what ailing octogenarian writer doesn't long for the company of an unemployed 20-year-old houseguest with no visible means of support and no reason to leave?--but just as a courtesy, I decided to send him notice of my arrival. Already I had in hand a friendly letter from White, written a year or two before in answer to a fan letter I'd sent him. So I mailed him a note letting him know that I would soon be taking our friendship...
...economy. The Fed watchers had it all figured out. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan had repeatedly leaked that the rollicking days of a strong economy were over. He was going to put the brakes on the longest peacetime advance with a series of rapid-fire interest-rate hikes that would send the stock market into a tizzy...
...Californian like me, the Civil War always seemed like a sideshow of American history. Out west, most people were more interested in making money than fighting the war--although California managed to donate a few shipments of gold to the national treasury, it never bothered to send actual soldiers to the battlefield. Los Angeles was, and is, closer to Mexico City than to Gettysburg...