Word: waits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House chief of staff Erskine Bowles provides comic relief when he makes his appearance. "Good morning, Mr. Bowles," says his interrogator. "I believe you have a device that you would like to inflate?" No, it wasn't a blowup doll; it was a pillow. And while the grand jurors wait, Bowles huffs and puffs and then tucks the cushion underneath himself...
Chaplain Mark Weiler is holding a seashell filled with purified water. Normally it's the parents who ask for him, when they want their baby baptized and don't think they can afford to wait. But this baby was abandoned weeks ago, and is due to go into surgery in an hour; it was the nurses who called and put aside their work to gather around the incubator. Weiler can't pick up this child, lying so still, like a broken marionette, so much tape holding so many tubes. He dips his finger in the water and touches the baby...
...aspect of fire-fighting. He gets excited about "the fire engine, the hoses and the nozzles and the rapidly flashing lights and the scream of the siren." What makes me stop and watch, what makes my heart race is something far different. I stop because firefighters are heroes. They wait every day for a call that requires them to put their lives in danger...
...that can appeal to all sorts--timid Tex-Mex neophytes may content themselves with their nachos and their quesadillas, while those with creative spirits may expand their horizons with pumpkin-stuffed rellenos or tortilla pie with chile mashed potatoes. Ingredients taste fresh, service is quick and friendly, and the wait on a Monday night was nonexistent. The Border was happily bypassed, and can remain forever ensconced in the shadow of a superior eatery across the river...
...Milosevic is likely to wait until the last possible moment and then make enough concessions to avert an air strike," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Belgrade has already declared an end to its offensive against ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo, and will likely make further commitments to avoid attack. U.N. and NATO sources insist that Milosevic has not yet complied with international demands, but further concessions could leave NATO in a difficult position. Says Dowell, "Skeptics believe that if NATO had really been planning to intervene in Kosovo, it should have done so a long time...