Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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White noted that a few Yalies who were disgruntled by the loss in The Game tried to stir...
...militants have lost their control, there may no longer be any humanitarian crisis in Zaire requiring international military response. That is fortunate for the refugees, but it adds yet another complicating lesson to the evolving textbook on what can be done to provide real help when victims of unrest stir the world's conscience...
History shows it's possible. In 1900 the life expectancy for a person born in the U.S. was 47 years. At mid-century, it was little better. After 1950, however, things started to stir. In a single year, subtle improvements in medical care caused the 47-year figure to jump 2%. The next year it jumped another 2%; then another. For four decades, that pattern has roughly continued, a compounding of existential interest that, according to U.S. figures, has pushed the average life expectancy to nearly 76, with many Americans living well beyond. Less conservative demographers are more optimistic still...
...almost imagine that Cameron is asking a higher power to help navigate his Titanic to a safe harbor at the box office next summer. The picture, which has been in production since September on locations ranging from Nova Scotia to Baja California, is already causing a stir in Hollywood with its burgeoning budget, which studio sources peg as low as $120 million and others put as high as $180 million. If the bigger estimates are correct, Titanic is in contention to be the most expensive picture ever made, surpassing Waterworld's mere $170 million budget. Throw in tales...
...boots and bags are black, shiny and made of tough hide--tough enough to be labeled "Nazi leather" by some enterprising salesfolk. The words are offensive to begin with. But in Israel, where the Holocaust is living memory, they are abominable. The daily Yediot Aharonot created a stir as it revealed the use of the appellation by a boutique belonging to the trendy Tel Aviv chain Grosso Modo. To reporter Sigalit Shahor's astonishment, a clerk boasted, "It is high quality and doesn't get dirty--all the boots worn by the Nazis in World War II were made...