Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ISSUE] If the lights go out at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, who gets sued? The bill in Congress proposed to limit corporate liability for Y2K computer bugs...
...Cabot professor of American literature and former master of Eliot House had been on leave this year, following a series of health problems over the past few years. Heimert suffered a stroke in 1997, the same year in which students awarded him the Levenson award for teaching excellence...
Heimert, who was on leave from the History and Literature department, suffered a stroke in early 1997, but had returned to teaching last year...
...microphone with his head before a minder steadied him. Another aide whispered the presidential oath in his ear as he pretended to read the words out loud from the folder thrust into his hands. It was an awkward beginning in front of the national assembly for Abdurrahman Wahid, a stroke victim who last Wednesday became the first freely elected President of Indonesia. And it was a bitter denouement for Megawati Sukarnoputri, the presumed front runner who had been left sucking for air by a series of political maneuvers she hadn't even seen coming...
...even greater concern is Wahid's fragile health. He suffered a stroke in 1998 that left him unable to walk unaided. "We need a leader who can unite the nation, and he has the capacity," says Emil Salim, a respected former Finance Minister. "But Gus Dur is not a healthy man." Should he die or become incapacitated, Megawati would take over as President for the remainder of his five-year term--something that could spark renewed opposition from Muslim parties, particularly if it happened before she had time to mend some political fences...