Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attitude toward Ho Chi Minh City. Many southern revolutionaries who helped win the war felt cheated in the years following 1975, when Hanoi's hard-line communists almost fatally "reorganized" much of old Saigon's industrial and commercial base. Now the city is in the heat of a spectacular comeback. A third of both Vietnam's gdp and its central-government revenues come from Ho Chi Minh City's textile factories, shrimp-processing plants and other businesses. The city is a commercial and banking center, as well as the capital of Vietnam's burgeoning oil and gas industry, which generates...
Voting on four different versions of a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress, the House of Representatives failed to pass a single one. The spectacular defeat marked the House's first rejection of a key G.O.P. bill, with the usually disciplined Republican rank and file splitting, largely along generational lines. The proposal received little Democratic support...
...fierce debate currently rages among some prominent American Jews about how Jews ought to relate to the spectacular political ascendancy of the so-called Christian Right...
...Professor Areeda's gift is absolutely inspiring," Clark said. "For over 30 years he's been an incredible, spectacular classroom teacher. He's given us the definitive treatise on antitrust law. And now he's made this great financial contribution...
...contest was a classic showdown between two of the country's top goaltenders, matching each other spectacular save for spectacular save. Michigan freshman Marty Turco and Maine junior Blair Allison each recorded over 50 saves...