Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brave new technologies stir up conflicting feelings, breeding hope and despair where once there was resignation. The high price of in vitro * treatments (ranging from $6,000 to more than $50,000 per live birth) means that only the rich and well-insured can afford them. Patients who have undergone round after round say it is like riding an emotional roller coaster; you never know when you are going to run into a brick wall and have your heart broken...
...strike against Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, warning that his private life will be fair game if he decides to run for President. The main inspiration for the paper is political gadfly Robert ("Say") McIntosh, a Little Rock restaurateur known as the "Sweet Potato Pie King," who is trying to stir up trouble for Clinton in Arkansas, handing out rumormongering leaflets...
...ultimate spiritual experience, no site could surpass the ancient Olmec pyramids at Cacaxtla, southeast of Mexico City. There a pallid re- enactment of Aztec dances failed to stir the crowd of 3,000, but the sun's pas de deux with the moon, lasting nearly six minutes -- a minute and a half short of the maximum duration possible -- led many to fall to their knees. With Mars, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter suddenly bursting into view in the afternoon, what else could they do but give thanks to the gods, ancient and modern, and pray for the opportunity to view...
N.W.A. raps nasty and righteous, with real ghetto heat, and doesn't give an inch. A couple of the new songs, such as Real Niggaz Don't Die and Appetite for Destruction, can really stir things up: their fury is incendiary. Everything good about N.W.A. -- and a lot that isn't -- is straight street: smarts, attitude, language, beat. Efil4zaggin is a rap mural of ghetto life, spray-painted with blood. It is for hard-case rappers, and it is no sell-out. N.W.A. got to the No. 1 spot by bearing down just as hard as it always...
...press conference arranged by the congress last month, retired Major Nico Basson accused the South African Defense Force of arming Inkatha to stir up tribal hostility. While the army and Inkatha denied the charges, eyewitnesses have seen white policemen escorting Inkatha impis (armed Zulus) from the scene of recent bloody attacks...