Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Gore lives in those weeds. On health care, he and his staff struggled to develop a program throughout the summer, talking about the future of medicine, how the human-genome project would be completed in his first term, how it could transform the health-care landscape. On Aug. 13 they met at Gore's office. On Aug. 18 they met at his house. "I want to go as far as I possibly can," Gore told his staff. "These small steps are nice, but that's what we've been doing for the past 6 1/2 years." Aides laid 13 policy...
...arrived to carry Elizabet and Elian to the promised land was no Cigaret-boat pro. Lazaro Munero, 24, was a maceta, a hustler. He had been seeing Elizabet since 1997, when she was divorced from Elian's father. In the summer of 1998, Munero and three friends made the trip to America on a tiny boat. But that autumn he returned to Cuba--heartsick, relatives say, to be away from his family and Elizabet. He was thrown in jail, but a few months months later, after his release, he began working to persuade Elizabet to join him on a second...
SOPHIA LOREN JULY 7, 1999: Having arrived in a horse-drawn carriage to open a summer sale, the alluring and mature actress fell off a stage after being attacked by a cockatoo at Harrods, the famed London department store...
...courts initially awarded the Troxels visitation rights: one weekend a month, one week in the summer and four hours on each grandparent's birthday. But the Washington supreme court sided with the mother, ruling that parents have a right to make decisions about their children. The court was also troubled that Washington State's statute allows visitation not only by grandparents but also by any adult who can persuade a court to order it. Mandatory visitation for nannies and soccer coaches, anyone...
...quiz show promising an astonishing payoff debuts on network television during the summer doldrums. The new prime-time entry attracts good ratings and earns a place on the fall schedule, at which point it becomes a national craze and TV's No. 1 hit. Competitors scramble to come up with big-money quiz shows of their own, offering richer pots and more intricate contest rules. The year...