Word: windes
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...greater awareness. Linked by the Internet, hundreds of millions of people rallied for the cause of conservation on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. Governments from Washington to Lima took steps to protect large wilderness areas from development. Progress was made toward using more renewable energy from the wind and the sun, and new hybrid cars that used both gasoline and electricity sported impressive fuel-economy statistics...
...Denver didn't officially celebrate on Dec. 31, 1999, because of Y2K fears, but will throw caution to the wind this year and stage a massive mall party. Mayor Wellington Webb has belatedly discovered the city was a stickler all along: it celebrated the start of the 20th century...
...began. Bush came to the field with less experience in public life than just about anyone in a century and proceeded to take in more money in his first four months of campaigning than anyone had ever raised in two years; he confronted a sitting Vice President with the wind at his back and maintained a nearly unbroken lead for more than a year, even though more people agreed with the other guy's positions. He took on the suicide wing of his party, which would rather be right than win, and made them roll over and play dead, threw...
...object that), for better or for worse, most affected the news and personified what was important about the year. Even had he won a simpler election, Bush would have been a strong contender. He remade and united the Republican Party and defeated a talented Vice President who had the wind at his back after eight years of wallet-popping prosperity. Bush's amiable demeanor tapped into a desire to end years of meaningless partisan rancor. Yet he was also controversial: he became the first President-elect to lose the popular vote since 1888, partly due to skepticism about one half...
...upsweeps and backyards and ballads, in her children dancing between urine and violets, in her singing to us between the sleeping and the waking. And as she entered into our 21st century bloodstream, paddling a river of risks, she became the color of bells, set sail on the wind and sailed home. Said hello to our own goodbyes...