Word: sin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most astronomers don't-partly because just about everyone else gets different results, partly because they suspect Sandage is guilty of a cardinal sin of science: having a preferred answer in mind before making observations...
Whatever that bill's ultimate fate, the tobacco wars are sure to drag on like a bad habit. This week several major health organizations and a bipartisan group of Governors will publicly rededicate themselves to the fight, waged with sin taxes, lawsuits, and no-smoking areas. Yet some legal experts doubt that the the Medicaid-reimbursement suits will be the decisive new weapon. Says Stephen Sugarman, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley: "My feeling is that a lot of these untried methods have a dubious likelihood of success." But as any nicotine addict knows, when people want...
...York's Republican Senator ALFONSE D'AMATO. He called a press conference at a Manhattan restaurant not to discuss Whitewater or debate the balanced-budget amendment but to gush and blush, tell the world that he is in love and even sing a few bars of It's a Sin to Tell a Lie. The object of his affection is CLAUDIA COHEN, the multimillionairess ex-wife of Revlon chairman Ron Perelman and the current gossip correspondent for TV's Live with Regis and Kathy Lee. "I feel like the frog who has been kissed by the princess," said D'Amato...
...game's end, Martins had spent ten minutes twiddling his thumbs in the sin...
...letters to his first girlfriend, Denise Hyland, are some of Maraniss' most revealing primary documents. "To be adrift in a stormy sea is no sin," Clinton writes in a letter to console Hyland, who is confused about her future. "Perhaps it is essential to really knowing yourself and seeking your future...