Word: short
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill Clinton having an attack of high moral fiber? "I've never seen the administration fighting so hard as they are on this," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., before he watched his steel-import quota bill come up three votes short on a procedural vote that would have boosted its chance of passing. Clinton the economist is fighting the quotas ?- meant to protect U.S. steelmakers from lower-priced foreign steel ?- on compelling grounds: They would almost certainly be a violation of current U.S. trade treaties. And at a time when Clinton pounds the world?s podiums calling for globalization...
...they found a blazing file cabinet and two fireplaces stuffed with burning documents ?- and no Frankel. The unlicensed broker had lit out of town with anywhere from $218 million to $915 million in his clients? money, most of it from small insurance firms from Oklahoma to Arkansas. Short-Term Capital Management? Try insurance fraud ?- and now the New York Daily News reports that six weeks later, authorities have finally come to the same conclusion and issued a warrant Tuesday for Frankel?s arrest...
...Nonetheless, after about 20 minutes, a rudimentary thoroughfare--which I dubbed the Steinway--was laid out. The robot rolled out my door, hung a left and cruised down the hall about 50 ft. to Stein's office, where it made another left and entered. A few seconds later a short, high-pitched scream (not robotic) indicated that Cye had found its mark. Upon inspection, I saw Stein standing on his sofa. "I fear it," he said, pointing at the orange robot. After Cye mastered the Steinway ("learning" the placement of walls and natural barriers, such as piles of discarded newspapers...
...does this spell the end for "the Butcher of the Balkans"? It's unlikely, at least in the short term. Nobody holds on to power as mercilessly as Milosevic. In the dictator's best-case scenario, he can hope for continuing control, thanks to a paucity of opponents and the postwar inertia of a beaten population. But if there are uprisings against him at home, he is more than ready to crush them. And while his indictment by the Hague war-crimes tribunal means he can't hope for a cushy retirement in any U.N.-compliant country, there are some...
...Matt Stone, TV's only true punks, have done something to irk almost everyone. After their blistering success with South Park two years ago, the duo did the following: concluded a heavily promoted South Park cliffhanger with farting stick figures in place of the regular characters; directed a short movie starring Stone's dancing penis; produced a news show staffed by people with Down syndrome; released Orgazmo, a movie about a Mormon porn star; starred in the flop BASEketball; argued that they should be co-presidents of Comedy Central; and refused to make South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut...