Word: versions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing has always been: Why should we care? We are the United States of America, home of the brave, land of the free. We enjoy unparalleled prosperity, we have a huge arsenal, and astounding civil liberties. Why should we accept an international benchmark for education? This is the jingoistic version of the challenge, but there is a moral ground to this argument as well. Who says that being good at science and math has anything to do with being a good citizen, or even a good person...
More importantly, there exists a scaled-down version of this option that costs you nothing you haven't already spent...
...went on, the victories in the face of difficulty began to pile up, sometimes from surprising faces, sometimes from the old familiar ones we had almost forgotten amid talk of an Olympic youth movement. Often, in fact, looking up at the podium, one could imagine oneself in some Eastern version of Sleepy Hollow. There was Artur Dmitriev, lifting his new partner Oksana Kazakova to a gold, with a long program of soulful if hardly flawless majesty, and collecting the medal he had won six years before. There was Georg Hackl, the businesslike German soldier, shooting away with the gold...
...amazing that when President Clinton is facing his version of the Cuban missile crisis in the standoff with Iraq, he is being subjected to harassment about whether he had sexual relations with Lewinsky. It is potentially disastrous that the leadership of the Western world is in the hands of what appears to be a democracy gone mad. IAN ELLIOTT Reigate, England...
...justification is that while the show is enormously popular with 18-to-25-year-olds, most college students don't have cable. He figures he's performing a public service--and building an even bigger audience for the show. After all, anyone who has seen the grainy PC version knows that it's better on a big-screen...