Word: things
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...advised that I should not vote -- but there wasn't, and he didn't -- I would have said, "I don't have any basis for questioning this legal authority. I'm not going to vote!" I'm not ignorant. I don't want to bring this kind of thing on myself voluntarily. But I did nothing wrong in voting for Bill Walters' transactions. That's the bottom line...
...public nightmare for me. So I reacted, frankly, by not taking as much care of myself. I worried about it. I read all the newspaper stories. I worried about what the next leak was going to be. I worried about the impact on Dad and my role in this thing. I gained a little weight. I didn't eat well. But you have two choices in life when you're faced with a challenge: you can either rise to it and take care of yourself, or you can let it get you. I'm taking care of myself. This sounds...
...kill the study unless other ways could be found to identify exposed soldiers. Much later, Murray learned of the institute's report and began to doubt his recommendation. "I may have been a babe in the woods," he said in an interview. "My feeling now is that this whole thing deserves another look...
...Hubble Space Telescope's devolution from Wonder of the Age to Blunder of the Century continued without letup last week. For one thing, the Associated Press reported that Perkin-Elmer Corp., which built the flawed mirror on the telescope, gave a subcontractor backward drawings for part of the telescope's guidance system -- forcing the prime contractor to pay the San Diego-based subcontractor, Composite Optics Inc., to rebuild it. Composite Optics reportedly made a tidy 63% profit...
...souls who passed the early decades of this once dangerous, vulnerable actor's career awaiting his Hamlet are doubtless going to be dismayed that his first sustained screen appearance since becoming eligible for Social Security is not in something sort of Lear-ish. But The Freshman is no small thing. Well, actually, it is a small thing. But to a moviegoer deafened by and reeling from the rolling barrage laid down by the early summer's big box-office guns, the determined modesty, the unsprung affability of Andrew Bergman's comedy are precisely what make it treasurable...