Word: final
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...pretty good bet that the Founding Fathers, in all of their deliberations in the sweltering summer of 1776, never called on the services of a "facilitator." Not so in Ballroom D of the Renaissance Hotel in Denver. There, a committee of the Green Party put the final touches on the group's platform. "If things get to be too much," said the facilitator, a young woman in a peasant skirt, "there may be times I ask for a moment of silence." As it turned out, a time-out wasn't needed. Despite a few hours of haggling over language...
...flies. We were confident that by the time we were done, sequencing technology would cost less than 50[cents] a letter, and that by then, we would be ready to tackle the human genome. We were also confident that genomics would pay scientific and medical dividends long before the final letters of the human genome were in place...
...most heated barroom arguments among sports fans is over the greatest performance by an athlete in a single game or match. Some argue for Michael Jordan's final game in 1998, where in the closing seconds he stole the ball and sunk the basket that gave his team the NBA title. Others would pick the "perfect game" that Don Larsen pitched for the Yankees in the 1956 World Series. Or Secretariat's amazing 31-length victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes. What each of these performances has in common is domination--a superb athlete taking on the best...
Under the terms of the merger, secretly negotiated through intermediaries over the last three months, Al Gore and George Bush will run on a single presidential ticket in the 2000 election and will share power as equal partners after the merger becomes final at the inauguration in January 2001. A coin toss at the DRP convention in August will determine which of them will call himself president and which will call himself vice president. By agreement, they will exchange the titles after the first four years. The "vice president" will run the DRP (for Democrat-Republican party) from a sleek...
...final novel from the celebrated author who died last December tracks, sometimes amusingly and always relentlessly, the decline of literary inventiveness. Eugene Pota, an author in his 70s, knew success and acclaim in his youth, and wants to make their acquaintance one more time. But nothing he begins writing, including the further adventures of Tom Sawyer and the story of God's wife, strikes him as worth pursuing. The one thing he refuses to consider doing is a novel about a novelist, a category he deems "already passe." The joke is on Pota; he doesn't realize that...