Word: stillborns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kaifu's proposal, the Japanese decided, went beyond all bounds of the taboo on military missions abroad, and the proposal was stillborn. His new idea, of rescuing refugees with C-130s, may also get shot down -- though he insists that he is legally free to send them without Diet approval...
...Triumph larger than Paris' Arc de Triomphe. Subway stations are opulent, with fireworks-shaped chandeliers, granite pillars, 250-ft. mosaics, and marble passageways and platforms. Yet many of the imperial structures have a slightly wistful, wasteful air: the enormous 150,000-seat May First Stadium, built in the stillborn hope of a role as co-host of the 1988 Summer Olympics, for example; or the 20,000 new apartments along Kwangbok (liberation) Street that were built to accommodate foreigners but remain largely uninhabited...
...University of Southern California impregnated six of seven postmenopausal women, ages 40 to 44, using eggs that were taken from younger women and fertilized with sperm from the older women's husbands. Four of these prematurely menopausal women gave birth to healthy offspring, one miscarried, and one had a stillborn baby -- an outcome that Sauer said would have been considered normal with six younger women...
Unlike Beaver, their only son, Skippy (David Javerbaum), passes his childhood largely ignored by his self-absorbed parents. Ironically, he is the only child of a mother who claims to want a large, fairytale family. But her dreams turn nightmarish as she has stillborn child after stillborn child. With the loss of each, Bette (Maile Meloy) retreats further into a fantasy world populated by the characters of Pooh's Corner. As she becomes more and more infantile in her blind desire to have children, Boo (Woody Hill) becomes increasingly estranged from her. He eventually finds solace in drink, and Bette...
...being fought on the sidewalks of New York, not in the ledger books. And so far, Dinkins' lackluster performance has strengthened the unsettling sense that he is simply not up to his job. In the war against crime, Dinkins' initiatives have been piecemeal and halting, ranging from a stillborn gun-amnesty program (only 35 illegal firearms have been turned in) to the hiring of less than a fourth of the additional 5,000 officers that police commissioner Brown contends are needed to win back the streets...