Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Albright, Chernomyrdin suggested he needed a negotiating partner with stature in Europe but no connections to NATO. "If I have someone from the West with me, I have a better chance of getting this done," he said. "Mother Boss," as the Russian calls Albright, immediately thought of the solid, no-nonsense Ahtisaari. Not only did he have years of experience in international negotiation and the cachet of Finland's assuming the presidency of the European Union, but Washington was sure he would not sell out the alliance's conditions...
...Rachel Carson, environmentalist --Albert Einstein, physicist --Philo Farnsworth, inventor of electronic television --Enrico Fermi, atomic physicist --Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist --Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst --Robert Goddard, rocket scientist --Kurt Godel, mathematician --Edwin Hubble, astronomer --John Maynard Keynes, economist --The Leakey Family, anthropologists --Jean Piaget, child psychologist --Jonas Salk, virologist --William Shockley, solid-state physicist --Alan Turing, computer scientist --James Watson & Francis Crick, molecular biologists --Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher --The Wright Brothers, visionary aviators...
...around 20 percent of 113 million ballots had been counted in the country's first free elections in more than 40 years, opposition icon Megawati Sukarnoputri was projected to claim the biggest share of the vote ?- around 35 percent. But with the military-backed ruling party Golkar claiming a solid 20 percent and two smaller opposition parties each scoring close to that, the election may yet be up to the generals to adjudicate. The reason is that Indonesia?s president is to be elected by an assembly in which 34 percent of the seats are reserved for appointees...
...team has always been remarkable for its internal cohesion," Hodge said. "In the past, we've had difficulty translating this into solid team performance in the water. However, one of the best things to come out of this year was the development of just that...
...Next year, we need to concentrate on rebuilding basic skills and to continue to develop as a team both in and out of the water," Hodge said." Our defense is pretty solid at this point, it's our offense that needs work...