Word: set
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their military, the Serbs on their provinces, the Latin Americans on drugs and the U.N. on reform...It is a foreign policy of sermons and sanctimony accompanied by the brandishing of Tomahawks." The article, which Krogh had passed around in advance to fellow members of the foreign policy elite, set Washington buzzing. Albright, brittle about her image, was furious...
...fact that Milosevic was touting the "victory" suggested he might be looking to declare himself a winner and end the bombing. If not, as the weather continues to clear over Serbia this week, he can expect a further expansion of the NATO raids--and devastation for a whole new set of targets...
...prove to regulators that it has not rebuilt the old Ma Bell monopoly.) AT&T sold to Microsoft--a company whose Internet strategy is looking increasingly piecemeal--$5 billion of preferred stock and an opportunity to supply some of the operating systems and software for the set-top boxes and servers that AT&T will have to deploy to support its vast new digital domain...
...critics' dispassion and the cultists' disappointment lies the likely response of the multiplex masses when the film opens May 19. As one woman said upon leaving the screening, "What do you want for $9?" What you get in The Phantom Menace is a panoramic entertainment with several terrific set pieces of action, stalwart acting from the Brits (and some very raw work by the kids), a precise, luscious visual design, a multilevel climactic battle and a funeral pyre that echo Return of the Jedi, and a triumphal coda from the first Star Wars film (1977). All that...
...have a crazy side to me, people don't know," she says. One is sure of her sincerity but unconvinced of her veracity: Brandy comes across, at all times, as sweet as a side order of candied yams. She continues, "I wanted to be in [the urban action film] Set It Off so bad, I wanted to rob a bank so bad ..." One tries to picture Brandy with a firearm. It's difficult. One tries to picture Tipper Gore with an AK-47. That's easier. Brandy keeps going: "I was a happy little girl. Now I'm a woman...