Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...encourage the partisans of competing approaches to stay loose. Their hunch was right: though she traveled widely to keep her husband's promise of reform alive while he was distracted with the budget, she kept her distance from the day-to-day decision making. After her father had a stroke in March, she withdrew from the task force for a month...
...harder case. President Hafez Assad is not eager to be seen as following Arafat's lead, and he believes the P.L.O.'s settling for a staged autonomy threatens his own ambition for a one-step return of the Golan Heights to Syrian control. Washington will have to stroke Assad, knowing that Israel needs time to digest the latest events before ceding territory to Syria, no matter the peace that would be its price. In Clinton's favor is the fact that Assad can no longer count on Moscow to support his pan-Arab dream and Syria's need for Western...
Soon after the operation ended, Reitha and Ken visited their surviving daughter. "She looks good," Ken said afterward. "She's got her color. She opened her eyes just briefly, and then went back to sleep, of course. But we got to hold her hand and stroke her hair, and she looks good...
This film isn't totally without redemption, though--the soundtrack is one of the rare bright spots. Adding groups such as Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Soul Asylum and Toad the Wet Sprocket was the movie's only stroke of genius. Obviously it was meant to attract a group of money-spending teenagers, even though the smartest of them will spend their money on the soundtrack and stay away from the theater...
...manners look cute. The children who giggled in Jurassic Park at the sight of a paleobotanist elbow- deep in triceratops doody will love the moment when Willy uses his blowhole to whisk away a huge wad of whale snot. Most important, he has a sweet disposition -- lets the boy stroke his tongue -- and is fiercely loyal to his human sibling. By film's end, a million tots in the audience will be tearfully whispering Jessie's climactic words: "I love you, Willy...