Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Indonesia? A touch of political stability hasn't helped the economy much -- the rupiah is now somewhere near the center of the earth...
Gingrich immediately got back in touch with his inner bomb-throwing child, told his troops to shout from the dome that Clinton, the country's chief law enforcer, was guilty not of the wimpy word "scandals," but of "crimes." Gingrich must also deliver on the Dobsonesque agenda that he once put on the back burner and embrace anti-gay, antiabortion, pro-gun candidates. Dobson, with more adherents than Ralph Reed or Pat Robertson, wants respect, and he wants it yesterday...
...former communist countries to make their agricultural and energy systems more efficient. Local contacts always strive to give him a taste of their culture. He has eaten (by hand) a spit-roasted cow in Romania, hunted for boar in Tatarstan and ridden a camel through Mongolia. Getting the local touch often means bedding down in rather unusual accommodations. Last year, for example, he stayed in a yurt in Turkmenistan. "They wanted me to have the experience, so I stayed one night," says Kaplan. "I was sitting in the middle of the yurt, on Turkmen carpets, and they roasted a lamb...
...noticed that when cancer cells are still tiny--only a millimeter or two across--they don't need any blood vessels to survive. In order to grow to life-threatening size, however, they need blood. And they get that blood by persuading nearby capillaries to reach out and touch them...
Bradfield's doctor put her in touch with UCLA's Slamon, who was testing a brand-new antibody that targeted the HER-2/neu protein. Although Slamon was using the antibody in combination with chemotherapy--and Bradfield was loath to go back to chemo--the combined therapy proved miraculous in her case. Sixteen small tumors in her lungs melted away. By 1993 she was in remission, and still is. "I got to be at my son's wedding," she exults. "The gift is that I'm here...