Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real G.O.P. contender for 1996 might be yet to arrive. Though he still says he isn't interested in the job, nobody is counting out Pete Wilson, a political corpse just two years ago who is a likely winner for re-election. % And everybody's favorite wild card is Colin Powell, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But the man who is now one of Clinton's designated interlocutors in Haiti still hasn't signaled whether he's a Republican, much less a presidential hopeful. "In my travels I hear a lot of interest in Powell among...
...staffer for Suffolk County District Attorney Ralph Martin 2d, who requested anonymity after breaking away from Martin's party elsewhere in the hotel to eat at Weld's buffet, said the governor's shindig was festive but not too wild. "This party is a Republican party," she said...
Early this summer, members of Redford's staff approached Harvard administrators unsolicited, to offer a free screening of the movie for Harvard's entering first-year class. The administrators were wild about the showing, which would have been tonight. They even printed up a series of press brochures advertising the event...
...wild, wild East over here," says Mike Gerrity, 24, who has established his own consulting firm in Moscow to help multinationals set up offices in Russia. A 1992 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Gerrity had no plans to wind up in Moscow until he visited some classmates working there and decided to stay, since the job market back home looked discouraging. He has no regrets: "There are opportunities to be creative here in a way there aren't in the States, where there is an infrastructure and there are rules. It's also nice to have...
...most investigators agree that although the danger has not been proved, it is too plausible to ignore. The chain of reasoning goes something like this: animals exposed to high doses of these pollutants in the wild develop reproductive abnormalities. Animals exposed to low doses in the lab do too. Humans absorb comparable low doses simply by breathing, drinking and especially eating. Some of the suspect chemicals have physiological effects similar to those of estrogen and other sex hormones, or they at least interact with them; they might reasonably be expected to interfere with processes involving these hormones, such...