Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drive as a whole was a thing of beauty, although there was a lot of ugliness along the way. It started when Princeton kicker Taylor Northrop, who had just rocked a 52-yarder with the wind at his back, slipped on the kickoff...
...passage of the treaty would have been a symbol of the U.S.'s continued moral leadership in a hazardous world, it's important not to overstate the impact of it's defeat. "This thing wasn't going to affect rogue states," a U.S. Navy officer says, "or even nations that pretend to comply." It's a little naive to think a militaristic outsider like North Korea would abandon its mighty efforts to develop nuclear weapons simply because the Senate voted a certain...
What's more, you don't have to be a Clinton hater to believe there are problems with how the test ban was constructed in the first place. For one thing, it had no cutoff date. Even some former Clinton Administration officials fear there is no way to ensure the effectiveness of U.S. weapons forever without testing them occasionally. A computer program that would monitor weapons in lieu of testing isn't ready, though treaty supporters argue that future Presidents could have pulled out of the treaty if the technology proved faulty...
...years--Super Soakers, Air Hogs, Beanie Babies, Furby, even Gus Gutz. They came from small companies with no movie licensing tie-ins. That's bad news for Mattel's Barad. She needs a hot toy this holiday season more than any six-year-old does. Otherwise, the only thing Barad may get for Christmas is fired...
...Malkovich, the: When I had originally read it, it was sent to an office I had in Los Angeles. It arrived one day I'd when I was going back over to Europe. All the planes were incredibly late and I had run out of all the books and things I had to read. I called my partner and asked if there was anything at our office to read. He said, "Oh, yes, there's one thing you have to read." He kind of sent it along. And at first, we expressed to Charlie that I myself would be interested...