Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Normally, we wouldn't see this until mid to late December," Russell said. "Some serious money is being spent in New Hampshire, and now in the Boston market as well...
...course, Y2K still might cause a lot of problems in the world's computers. Especially in third-world nations and in former communist countries, Y2K preparedness is not good. While the United States government started debugging its computer systems years ago, other nations have barely started. A serious disaster on New Year's Day is still a real possibility...
...Serious critics of the World Trade Organization may be facing a problem familiar to that of moderate Republicans - making their voices heard above the extremist din in their own tent. President Clinton arrived in a Seattle under siege Wednesday, after police Tuesday imposed a curfew to curb the protests that disrupted the opening of the WTO summit. An impossibly broad coalition of activists - ranging from anarchists to environmentalists and the pillars of U.S. organized labor - have condemned the WTO as a forum of corporate interests with growing power to overrule national governments on such issues as protecting the environment...
Clinton's delayed announcement gives her that much less time to dispel the "carpetbagger" accusation and present herself to New York voters as a serious and viable Senate candidate. We hope that now that she's in official campaign mode, she'll let us know more concretely where she stands on the issues...
...guns--in order to appreciate the pull of the medium, I think you first have to understand its firepower. But when a typical adolescent is putting in the equivalent of almost a full day at the office in front of the tube, I say we're into serious overkill...