Word: silvering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...However," she said, "these clouds don't have silver linings...
...factions and earned support from Washington, but it has fallen on hard times. Internal feuds and well-publicized failures have melted its credibility. Another group, the Amman-based Iraqi National Accord, tries to cultivate dissent inside the Iraqi army in hopes of the putsch that U.S. intelligence calls "the silver bullet." The I.N.A. was a CIA favorite--until Saddam penetrated the group in 1996 and quickly executed 100 Baghdad-based dissidents, a brutal reminder of his famously bloody ruthlessness...
...hunting for Furbies over the summer--and were further inspired when Wired magazine ran a huge Furby feature in September, breeding even more TV stories. "It was incredible, all these reporters calling up and saying, 'Why is this so hot? You can't find this thing anywhere,'" says Jim Silver, publisher of Toy Book, a trade publication. "But the company hadn't even shipped any--of course they couldn't find it. It became a self-fulfilling prophecy...
Still, there may be a silver lining to the Patriots' departure. Perhaps Finneran's opposition to a plush deal for Kraft signals that, finally, civic leaders are beginning to rethink the policy of corporate appeasement that has brought us to this sorry state...
...match victory keeps the prized Wolff Cup in Harvard hands. The silver trophy records the victories of Harvard-Yale chess matches since 1986, but has only been part of Harvard-Yale chess tradition for two years...