Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Then he asked for mercy. Not so much for him, but for November's Democratic hopefuls. The Labor-Democratic "partnership," Clinton said, must continue for the sake of the rest of Labor's agenda. Courtesy prevailed, and the speech closed to more applause. Al Gore can only hope that spirit of tolerance prevails if his name ends up on the year 2000 primary ballot next to Dick Gephardt...
...convergence of Case's entrepreneurial spirit and his hobby came in 1983, when his brother Dan helped him land a job at Control Video, a Virginia-based company with the premature idea of shipping Atari video games to home computers over telephone lines. Two weeks after Case arrived, the firm's capital dried up. Out of the ashes, Case crafted Quantum Computer Services. His idea was to create an online bulletin board for owners of Commodore 64 computers. It wasn't a sexy niche, but he thought it might have potential...
...united. In fact, this was a process that began well before the princess's death. Tony Blair campaigned as "new" Labour, and as a Minister puts it, "Modernize is one of Tony's favorite words." Having transformed the old-line left into a party of personal responsibility and community spirit, speaking the language of healing, empowerment and openness, he was ready to apply the same process to the monarchy...
DIED. LEON EDEL, 89, the reigning authority on Henry James, who vividly detailed the author's life in a five-volume, Pulitzer-prizewinning biography; in Honolulu. In Edel's energetic and engrossing work, James emerged not as the passionless scholar of previous interpretations but as an artist of great spirit as well as mind, roiled by psychic conflict...
...leaders of some large corporations are starting to pay heed. "It's very important for us to go where the purchasing power is," says Michael H. Jordan, chairman and CEO of Westinghouse/CBS, whose CBS unit airs hits like Touched by an Angel (featuring a helpful celestial spirit) that have made it the top network with viewers 55 or older. "We ought to call this the Willie Sutton strategy," says Jordan, referring to the legendary safecracker who said he robbed banks because that's where the money...