Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accomplish her agenda, and then get out, as she did as a legislator. Lifetime professional politics, she says, "makes you funny in the head." She does not want to lose the disattached perspective that allows her to see the quirks and flaws in progressive Cambridge that she says the "shadow of Harvard and MIT" tends to obscure...
...most challenging yet for the man named by Bush as Secretary of Education last December, whose mild and courteous demeanor masks a high-octane ambition. His goal is to transform the Department of Education, which Ronald Reagan once pledged to abolish, from a backwater operation in the shadow of the Air and Space Museum into one of Washington's leading domestic agencies...
Until he retired last November, Lee Kuan Yew was the only Prime Minister that Singapore had ever had since gaining independence in 1965. In the months since Lee stepped down, Goh Chok Tong, his handpicked successor, has been trying to emerge from Lee's shadow. In an attempt to establish his own mandate, last month he called a snap election two years before he was required...
...springtime bounce of a perky cheerleader, though taken too far, it leads straight to hell (666 is the number of the Beast). And 7 is everybody's lucky number -- we base our lives around 7 seas, 7 heavens and 7 graces (as well, inevitably, as their shadow side, the 7 deadlies). But what of 9? It is, we all know, an odd number (very odd), and an early square. It is a 6 on its head, a circle and a line, the highest digit and the last, with something of the darkness that attaches to last things...
Limbering up in Lewis' shadow was Mike Powell, 27, an American who had chafed under the superstar's decade-long domination of track and field. Powell's first four tries were less than Carolingian. "Something went wrong on every jump," he said. But the fifth came with a veritable thunderclap. Powell flew up against a sky heavy with humidity and threatening summer clouds. When he came down, he felt something had happened. "I knew it was far, and I knew it was close to Carl's. When I looked at it, I thought it might be a world record...