Word: well
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just tried to execute simple plays well," Weiss said. "We had lost to them earlier in the year, and we just tried to play the match one point at a time...
...Miami, you may find yourself deluged with fabulous offers: a condo on the beach in Barcelona, a castlelike "cottage" in Burgundy. Sometimes the accommodations are more modest than what you're offering in exchange. But timing and location can make up the difference. If you live in a less well-known area, you can write to prospects, regaling them with the hidden charms of greater Toledo or Tulsa, or luring them with the special amenities of your community: tennis or golf, for example...
After nearly two decades of swapping, Jerry and Mary had their first annoyance this past summer with a couple from Italy. "They drank our wine collection," Jerry griped. Well, the Italian couple drank about 10 bottles, Mary corrected, but they didn't touch the "good" wine, and in turn had left Jerry and Mary some bottles and food in their home in Italy. Despite this, Jerry says he would gladly exchange again, only not with them...
...absentia on banking-fraud charges. (Chalabi says the allegations were trumped up.) Though the loyalty of many divisions in Saddam's 400,000-man armed forces is questionable, U.S. intelligence believes that enough of the elite Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard units would stand and fight. And those well-trained divisions, with thousands of tanks and artillery pieces, would maul the guerrillas in what intelligence analysts believe would become a Middle East version of the Bay of Pigs. Faced with that possibility, it is no wonder the Clinton Administration seems content to let Public Enemy No. 1 remain...
Last year the deal-a-day CEO of financial-services giant Travelers Group, Sanford I. Weill, called then Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to impart important news. "You're buying the government?" Rubin quipped. Well, no. But the remark was more on the money than either could have known...