Word: clouds
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...started in the labs. The advent of AZT and other HIV drug treatment protocols meant HIV-infected people were not necessarily doomed to a rapid and painful death. But many in the international AIDS community began to depict that silver lining as an entire silver cloud, joyfully proclaiming the end of the plague and effectively lowering our collective guard against the disease...
...tech tortured can seek solace among energy services, banks and insurers, consumer staples and health care. Stay diversified and somewhat conservative. An all-purpose growth-and-income fund might be just the thing. Bonds are also a decent place to hide while the market is seeing a dark cloud behind every silver lining...
Consider what would happen if the electoral votes were automatically cast: the winner would be settled as soon as the popular votes were counted and certified. With humans involved, however, another huge cloud of uncertainty may envelop the process--especially if the margin of electoral victory is as thin as this year's. There might be public pressure on electors to cast their votes on behalf of the winner of the national popular vote. Imagine the din from radio talk shows, the threats and promises aimed at these electors. A few might withhold their votes unless their candidate agrees...
...symbolism of President Clinton's Vietnam visit may cloud the underlying strategic issues. After all, the spectacle of an erstwhile draft dodger becoming the first U.S. president to visit Hanoi and lay to rest the wounds of the past is pregnant with symbolic meaning, and will no doubt produce reams of op-ed copy in both the U.S. and Vietnam. But as President Clinton insists, Vietnam is not simply a war, but a country with whom the U.S. needs a relationship. And although he paid tribute to the war dead on both sides in an unprecedented speech Friday, the President...
...ends with rapid-fire images of the devil, an atomic mushroom cloud, a picture of George W. Bush and finally another shot of the devil, set to the stabbing music from Psycho and wrenching screams...