Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken away from you at any time." Jordan did leave open the possibility, however, that a life without basketball might feel less valuable to him than it does now. "Five years down the line, if that urge comes back, if the Bulls have me, if ((N.B.A. Commissioner)) David Stern lets me back in the league, I may come back." The phrase had a curious ring to it, as there are still rumors that the N.B.A. is unhappy with Jordan's inveterate gambling and that the league's investigation of him did not totally exonerate...
With so many concerns calling for stern management, Yeltsin might be expected to stay at his desk. Instead he announced he would fly to Japan this week for a long-scheduled three-day visit. He may have felt he had to keep the date this time, because he twice had to cancel to deal with crises at home. Beyond that, Yeltsin knows that appearances matter. Even if everything in Russia is not completely under his control, his arrival in Tokyo will invite the world to think he has everything firmly in hand...
...future. Despite its poverty, Abouhalima's family was several cuts above the norm, which may have created an expectation in the $ young man that a better life was obtainable. His rebellion began in small ways. He started to smoke, but never once lit a cigarette in front of his stern father, a powerful weight lifter who would have disapproved. As a teenager, Abouhalima began to hang around with members of the outlawed al- Jama'a Islamiyya, or Islamic Group, which considered the blind Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman its spiritual guide...
...Harvey Wallbangers, Beauty and the Beast trinkets, tickets to a Madame Tussaud's waxworks -- and doesn't involve pornography, switchblades or free- base pipes, the powers that be want it on the new 42nd Street. "We're after vulgar heterogeneity," says the sly, donnish and influential architect Robert A.M. Stern, who drafted the new guidelines with the sly, perverse and influential graphic designer Tibor Kalman. Incredibly, they have persuaded the state and city to get behind an authentically populist spectacle, a potential mix of tourist traps and hip outlets, mom-and-pop shops and name-brand superstores. The goal...
...Arabs has been pushing up through the Middle East soil for six or seven years, ripening but not ready. Who's to say, exactly, what made an avowed terrorist and a gruff, tough soldier reckon the time to pluck it had come? Rabin, hero of the Six-Day War, stern enforcer of the occupation, talked about territorial compromise but seemed an unlikely figure to break long-standing taboos. As Defense Minister during the early days of the intifadeh, he vowed to defeat it with "force, might and beatings," but the uprising ended up changing him. Instead, back in February...