Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rather than face the difficult choices of humanitarian action, I would rather rely on the difficult choices of political and diplomatic negotiation," Ogata said...
...studio right next to the house, so if I woke up and had a half-decent day, I would turn on the tape recorder and play for a few minutes. I was too fatigued to do more. Then something started to click with the mike placement, the new action of the instrument--I could play so soft--and the internal dynamics of the melodies of the songs. It was one of those little miracles that you have to be ready for, though part of it was that I just didn't have the energy to be clever. Also...
This summer, sitting at L.A.'s babe-filled Sky Bar, I was looking at an older, married guy on a business trip who was wistfully scoping out the action. I asked my two friends, both of whom had girlfriends, if they thought we'd wind up like him, as sexually stunted as Stanley Kubrick must have been when he directed Eyes Wide Shut. "By the time I'm his age, you know what I'll be thinking about?" one of them asked, staring at a hot but annoyingly giggly blond. "Pie. A nice piece of pie. Even right...
Treatments for more advanced cancers, however, are farther over the horizon than anybody can see. What is clear is that oncologists must take a page from aids treatment and use a cocktail of drugs with very different modes of action to outsmart tumors that have already begun to spread or metastasize...
Change won't be easy. But how we respond will help answer the metaphorical meaning of "Will we run out of gas?" That is, will our species fizzle out in the coming century, a victim of its own appetites and lethargy? Or will we take action and earn a longer stay on this beautiful planet...