Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans seem to lean cautiously toward bombing, as long as it's legal. A TIME/CNN poll shows that 60% want the U.N. to authorize the use of force and only 38% think the U.S. should go it alone. If Clinton does send in the planes, 71% of those polled believe it will be because it is in the best interest of the nation, not to divert attention from Washington scandals. The real gut check for Clinton would come if several days of bombing failed to change the fundamental equation. Saddam, his weapons of mass destruction and his Republican Guard would...
...perform. At 4 ft. 10 in. and 80 lbs., with her hair pulled back in a beribboned bun, Lipinski is almost indistinguishable from the girls sent out to gather blooms and gifts tossed out by fans. That is, until she hears her name. Then she breaks free, strokes purposefully toward center ice, and suddenly everyone knows this is no flower girl...
...place. The Mount Bachelor ski area is packed with truckloads of sound equipment, brimming with $10,000 purses and populated by whole contingents of coaches. For the halfpipe, snowboarding's freestyle discipline and Haakonsen's main event, Todd Richards launches and spins his way past fellow American Ross Powers toward a victory. Richards, who defeated Haakonsen at last year's U.S. Open in Stratton, Vt., was expected to challenge Haakonsen for the gold in Nagano. Their rivalry will remain non-Olympian and will certainly not pit the U.S. against Norway...
...calendar slouches toward the big triple zero, the prudent citizen reviews options: 1) ascend a barren hillside and wait for the world and the millennium hype to end; 2) turn on a computer and watch its date-bollixed software seize up; 3) agree with the grumps who point out that since there was no year zero, the millennium will not crash down on our heads till 2001; or 4) agree with the Chinese, who point out that this year's date is 4635, so why worry...
EARLIER, NOT BETTER A recent trend toward having amniocentesis performed early--11 to 12 weeks into pregnancy instead of the usual 15 or 16--may raise the risk that the baby will be born with a clubfoot or that mom will miscarry...