Word: sights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gund, who has been blind since 1970, began losing his sight in his late 20s because of a degenerative disease of the retina with no known cure. Since then, the Gunds have been active in funding research for a cure...
Gund said his loss of sight spurred his interest in the study of the mind and the brain...
...part of the student security team. The main security for the event consisted of examining the credentials the guests were required to wear around their necks at all times. Before entering the door to the floor, we had to stop everyone and examine their credentials by sight and by touch. Of course, this system held up the traffic flow, but most guests were generally sympathetic and understanding of the reasons for the precautions...
...result is an extravagantly expensive campaign season. While the amount that candidates for President and Congress will spend this year is estimated at $1.2 billion, the amount spent in other ways by the parties and special-interest groups may total $800 million more. There's no end in sight. Bill Clinton and Bob Dole both promised in their first debate that they would get serious about reforming campaign-finance laws, but they have studiously avoided the subject in the past 12 months; Congress has been stalled all year on the McCain-Feingold campaign-reform bill, its most comprehensive attempt...
...redemption; he also shaped the itchy camaraderie of Davis and Jackson. Atoning for the flop Cutthroat Island, director Renny Harlin pumps up the genre adrenaline and puts his wife-star through her labors (including a Tarzan stunt echoing one of Jackie Chan's in Police Story). But he keeps sight of the film's disquieting subtext: that we often don't know what monsters swim inside us. And if we did, we might want to start shooting...