Word: successful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enclaves, Chalabi will build a guerrilla force financed by "liberated" Iraqi oil. One day, under the protection of U.S. warplanes, 10,000 fighters will march on Baghdad, slicing away pieces of Saddam's territory as their offensives persuade demoralized Iraqi army units to desert. When civilians witness the burgeoning success of the insurgents, the brittle walls surrounding the dictator's regime will collapse amid a general uprising, and Saddam will be overthrown...
...Annan to know that while February's Clinton--weakened by the Lewinsky scandal, mocked for Wagging the Dog--was desperate for a way out, November's Clinton--vindicated by the elections, triumphant in the fall of Newt, fresh from diplomatic success at Wye Plantation--was this time finally prepared to use force...
...transformed industry is flourishing in Buzz and Woody's wake. The recent success of Antz was only the first shot in a fusillade of diverse CGI (computer graphics imaging) epics designed to appeal to moviegoers whose tastes are informed more by Super Mario and Doom than by Snow White and Bambi...
Even as A Bug's Life debuts this week, Pixar is hard at work on Toy Story 2 and a project dubbed Monsters, Inc., about the creatures living beneath a child's bed. DreamWorks is hoping for Antz-size success with Shrek, set for 2000 and featuring an ogre who pines for a beauty (some things never change). Universal is working on a Frankenstein project with CGI pioneer Industrial Light & Magic. Warner Bros. is readying The Iron Giant, about a machine that befriends a boy in 1950s Maine. And although both of Disney's '99 releases, Tarzan and Fantasia...
...silence some critics of Java software. "We've never had this level of confidence in code," says Sick. "It's not where it needs to be yet, but it's getting there faster than anything has before." And if Microsoft opts to join the Java team with pure intentions, success could come more speedily than ever...